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Title: CHORUSES OF YOUNG WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE
THEIR MORPHOLOGY, RELIGIOUS ROLE AND SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
By: Claude Calame, Janice Orion, Derek Collins
Format: Hardback

List price: £60.00


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ISBN 10: 0822630621
ISBN 13: 9780822630623
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
Pub. date: 26 December, 1996
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Pages: 352
Translated from: French
Description: Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, this book reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs sung by young women in ancient Greece, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature of womanhood.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: bibliography
Publication: US
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Returns: Returnable
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MYTH AND HISTORY IN ANCIENT GREECE (HB)
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