Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religous Role, and Social Functions (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religous Role, and Social Functions (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches) image
ISBN-10:

0742515257

ISBN-13:

9780742515253

Author(s): Calame, Claude
Edition: Revised
Released: Jun 06, 2001
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
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Description:

In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood and to be integrated into the adult civic community. This first English edition includes an updated bibliography.












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