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

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

Calame, Claude
Orion, Janice
Collins, Derek

Paperback

Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

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ISBN10: 082263063X
ISBN13: 9780822630630
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 1 1997
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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