Singing for the Gods
Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 December 2011
- ISBN 9780199639502
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages528 pages
- Size 236x155x28 mm
- Weight 778 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 maps, 14 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
A new approach to an old question - the relationship between myth and ritual. Barbara Kowalzig shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, helped to effect social and political change in their own time.
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Singing for the Gods develops a new approach towards an old question in the study of religion - the relationship of myth and ritual. Focusing on ancient Greek religion, Barbara Kowalzig exploits the joint occurrence of myth and ritual in archaic and classical Greek song-culture. She shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, help to effect social and political change in their own time. Religious song emerges as integral to a rapidly changing society hovering between local, regional, and panhellenic identities and between aristocratic rule and democracy. Drawing on contemporary debates on myth, ritual, and performance in social anthropology, modern history, and theatre studies, this book establishes Greek religion's dynamic role and gives religious song-culture its deserved place in the study of Greek history.
Review from previous edition Kowalzig leaves archaic Greece a richer and even more interesting place than she found it, and this book will make us all more suspicious and more attentive readers and tourists. This is a significant achievement.
Table of Contents:
Prelude to the khoros
Introduction
Dancing on Delos
New Tunes in Musical Argos: Mapping out the Argolid in Cultic Song
Locality and Panhellenism: Aiginetan Myth and Delphic Ritual
Returning to the Beginning: Insular Identity on Fifth-Century Rhodes
Aetiology Overseas: From Epic to Ethnic Identity in Megale Hellas
Who were the Boiotians? Myths of Migration in Ritual
Epilogue
