Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece
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A01=Claude Calame
A01=Derek Collins
A01=Janice Orion
Author_Claude Calame
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Author_Janice Orion
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Product details
- ISBN 9780822630630
- Weight: 449g
- Dimensions: 146 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 19 Dec 1996
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: 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.
Claude Calame is professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
