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Zusatztext Important...Its cutting-edge contributions impressively succeed, even if, inevitably, some items appear repeatedly, while interpretations display contributors not singing from one dithyramb sheet. One of numerous strengths is that many different styles of scholarship are applied. Informationen zum Autor Barbara Kowalzig is Associate Professor of Classics and History at New York University, and an Associate of the Centre Louis Gernet in Paris. Her research focuses on religion, music and performance, and cultural and economic anthropology in ancient Greece and the Mediterranean. She is the author of Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (2007; 2011) and has published widely on Greek song-culture, ritual, and drama.Peter Wilson is William Ritchie Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney and the inaugural Director of the Centre for Classical & Near Eastern Studies of Australia. He is the author of The Athenian Institution of the 'Khoregia': the Chorus, the City and the Stage, Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies (2007) and Performance, Reception, Iconography: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin (with M. Revermann, 2008). Klappentext This volume looks at dithyramb in its entirety! understanding it as a social and cultural phenomenon of Greek antiquity. How the dithyramb functions as a marker and as a carrier of social change throughout Greek antiquity is expressed in themes such as performance and ritual! poetics and intertextuality! music and dance! history and politics. Zusammenfassung This volume looks at dithyramb in its entirety, understanding it as a social and cultural phenomenon of Greek antiquity. How the dithyramb functions as a marker and as a carrier of social change throughout Greek antiquity is expressed in themes such as performance and ritual, poetics and intertextuality, music and dance, history and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of contributors; List of Illustrations; Conventions and Abbreviations; 1 Barbara Kowalzig and Peter Wilson: Introduction: The World of Dithyramb; I Social and Religious Contexts; 2 Barbara Kowalzig: Dancing Dolphins: Dithyramb and Society in the Archaic Period; 3 Salvatore Lavecchia: Becoming like Dionysos: Dithyramb and Dionysian Initiation; 4 Lucia Prauscello: Demeter and Dionysos in the Sixth-Century Argolid: Lasos of Hermione! the Cult of Demeter Chthonia and the Origins of Dithyramb; 5 Luigi Battezzato: Dithyramb and Greek Tragedy; II Defining an Elusive Performance Form; 6 Giovan Battista D Alessio: The Name of the Dithyramb: Diachronic and Diatopic Variations; 7 David Fearn: Athens and the Empire: The Contextual Flexibility of Dithyramb! and its Imperialist Ramifications; 8 Paola Ceccarelli: Cyclic Choroi and the Dithyramb in the Classical and Hellenistic period: a Problem of Definition; 9 Guy Hedreen: The Semantics of Processional Dithyramb: Pindar s Second Dithyramb and Archaic Athenian Vase-Painting; 10 Armand D Angour: Music and Movement in the Dithyramb; III New Music; 11 John Curtis Franklin: Songbenders of circular choruses : Dithyramb and the Demise of Music; 12 Timothy Power: Kyklops Kitharoidos: Dithyramb and Nomos in Play; 13 Mark Griffith: Satyr-play! dithyramb and the Geopolitics of Dionysian Style in Fifth-Century Athens; 14 Alexander Heinemann: Performance and the Drinking Vessel: Looking for an Imagery of Dithyramb in the Time of the New Music; IV Towards a Poetics of Dithyramb; 15 Andrew Ford: The Poetics of Dithyramb; 16 Claude Calame: The Dithyramb! a Dionysiac Poetic Form: Genre Rules and Cultic Contexts; 17 Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi: Dithyramb in Greek Thought: The Problem of Choral Mimesis; 18 Giorgio Ierano: One for whom the tribes dispute: The Dithyrambic Poet and the City of Athens; V Dithyramb in the Roman Empire; 19 Julia L. Shear: Choroi and tripods: The Politics of the Choreg...
