Choral Tragedy - Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual

"Re-examines the chorus in Greek tragedy and argues for the fundamentally poetic and musical nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which it was performed"--

List of contents

1. The essence of 'The Tragic'; 2. Tragedy, cult, and ritual; 3. Choral polyphonies and tragedy; 4. Aeschylus' Persians: questioning choral identity; Euripides' Hippolytus: choral song and gender; 6. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: 'Why Should I Dance (Chorally)?'; 7. Poets, tragic diction, and tragic fiction.

About the author

CLAUDE CALAME is Director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (Centre AnHiMA: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques) and was previously Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Lausanne. He has specialized in the study of Greek poetic texts from an ethnopoetic perspective, an approach relying on historical anthropology, the history of religions and discourse analysis. Many of his books have appeared in English translation: The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece (1995), The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece (1999), Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece (2nd ed., 2001), Myth and History in Ancient Greece. The Symbolic Creation of a Colony (2003), Masks of Authority. Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics (2005), Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece (2009), Greek Mythology. Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction (Cambridge, 2009), and Humans and Their Environment. Beyond the Nature/Culture Opposition (2023).

Summary

Re-examines the chorus in Greek tragedy and argues for the fundamentally poetic and musical nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which it was performed.

Product details

• Authors: Claude Calame, Claude (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Science Calame, Claude (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Calame, Calame Claude
• Assisted by: Goldhill Simon (Foreword), Vanessa Casato (Translation), Vanessa (Universita Ca'Foscari Casato (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781316516256
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51625-6
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Classical Scholarship in Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman literature