Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions by Calame, Claude

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822630630)

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Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions by Calame, Claude

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions

$80.00
Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions by Calame, Claude

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions

$80.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Claude Calame, Janice Orion, Derek Collins
ISBN-10: 082263063X
ISBN-13: 9780822630630
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1997
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
By Claude Calame
By Claude Calame
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Claude Calame is professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

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