Cultural poetics in archaic Greece : cult, performance, politics / / [edited by] Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827572103321
• 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)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• 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.