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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778716903321

Titolo

Cultural poetics in archaic Greece : cult, performance, politics / / editors, Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998

ISBN

0-19-770446-8

1-280-53012-X

0-19-535244-0

0-585-31332-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

DoughertyCarol

KurkeLeslie

Disciplina

938

Soggetti

Greece History To 146 B.C

Greece Civilization To 146 B.C Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Based on a conference at Wellesley College in October 1990.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Poetics of Power: The Interpretation of Ritual Action in Archaic Greece; 3 The Archaeology of Ancestors; 4 Divine Selection: Epiphany and Politics in Archaic Greece; 5 Hipparchos and the Rhapsodes; 6 The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom; 7 The Economy of Kudos; 8 Hero Cult and Politics in Herodotus: The Bones of Orestes; 9 It's Murder to Found a Colony; 10 Thucydides' Solonian Reflections; 11 The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.E.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a conference held at Wellesley in 1990. It aims to represent a critical milestone in the cultural poetics movement, which lies at the intersection of New Historicism and classical studies.