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Singing for the gods : performances of myth and ritual in archaic and classical Greece / Barbara Kowalzig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kowalzig, Barbara.
- Series:
- Oxford classical monographs.
- Oxford classical monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rites and ceremonies--Greece.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece.
- Greece--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 508 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- A new approach to an old question - the relationship between myth and ritual. Barbara Kowalzig shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, helped to effect social and political change in their own time.
- Contents:
- Prelude to the khoros ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Dancing on Delos ; 3. New Tunes in Musical Argos: Mapping out the Argolid in Cultic Song ; 4. Locality and Panhellenism: Aiginetan Myth and Delphic Ritual ; 5. Returning to the Beginning: Insular Identity on Fifth-Century Rhodes ; 6. Aetiology Overseas: From Epic to Ethnic Identity in Megale Hellas ; 7. Who were the Boiotians? Myths of Migration in Ritual ; Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [402]-448) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611341565
- 9780191527517
- 0191527513
- 9780191712968
- 0191712965
- 9780199639502
- 0199639507
- 9781281341563
- 1281341568
- OCLC:
- 1336401696
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