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Choruses of young women in ancient Greece : their morphology, religious role, and social functions / Claude Calame ; translated by Derek Collins and Janice Orion

Author
Calame, Claude
Uniform Title
Chœurs de jeunes filles en Grèce archaïque. 1, Morphologie, fonction religieuse et sociale. English
Published
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2001]
Copyright Date
©2001
Edition
New and rev. ed.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 282 pages).
Additional Creators
Collins, Derek and Orion, Janice
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Contents
Problems of fragments 1 and 3 of Alcman -- The nature of the sources -- The title "Partheneia" -- The protagonists of fragments 1 and 3 -- The ritual and the deity -- The functions of the lyric chorus -- Problems of method -- Sociologism in the study of the socio-cultural setting -- The comparative method used to analyze the ritual -- Semiotic approach -- Morphology of the Lyric Chorus -- The chorus-members -- The number of chorus-members -- The sex of the chorus-members -- The age of the chorus-members -- The collective character of a group of chorus-members -- The "companionship" of the chorus-members -- Formal organization of the chorus -- Circular form -- The arrangement of the chorus-members -- The choregos -- Terminology -- The function of the choregos -- Apollo: The myth -- Theseus: Myth and ritual -- The choregos and choral lyric: Alcman and Pindar -- Other examples of the role of the choregos -- Figurative representations of the choregos -- The distinctive qualities of the choregos -- The activity of the chorus -- The hymn -- The paean -- The dithyramb -- The citharodic nomos -- The threnody -- The epithalamium/hymenaeus -- Other choral performances -- Chorus and Ritual -- Non-Spartan rituals -- Choral festivities among the gods -- Rites dedicated to Artemis -- Apollo -- Hera -- Aphrodite -- Athena -- Dionysus -- Demeter -- The chorus and the pantheon -- Lacedaemonian rituals -- Artemis -- Artemis Limnatis -- Artemis Karyatis -- Artemis Orthia -- Artemis Korythalia -- Apollo: The Hyakinthia.
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0742515249 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780742515246 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0742515257 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780742515253 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index.
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