CHORUSES OF YOUNG WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE: THEIR MORPHOLOGY, RELIGIOUS ROLE, AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

CALAME, Claude, Derek Collins (Trans.), Janice Orion (Trans.)

ISBN 10: 082263063X ISBN 13: 9780822630630

Published by Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 1997

Language: English

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8vo. pp xii, 282. Illustrated covers lettered in white. Originally published in French as 'Les Choeurs de Jeunes Filles en Gr�ce Archaique' in 1977.ISBN: 082263063X Very good, with some light shelfwear along bottom edge.

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CHORUSES OF YOUNG WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE: THEIR MORPHOLOGY, RELIGIOUS ROLE, AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

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Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

Publication Date

1997

Language

English

ISBN 10

082263063X

ISBN 13

9780822630630

Binding

Hardcover

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1st Edition

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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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Claude Calame is professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

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