
Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece
Cult, Performance, Politics
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 1. October 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-19-512415-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is a paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a seminal conference held at Wellesley in 1990. Among the scholarly community, the book is generally regarded as the first critical milestone in the cultural poetics movement, which lies at the intersection of New Historicism and classical studies.
Reviews / Votes
All of these essays help us to rethink old approaches to archaic Greece, and they will undoubtedly inspire new scholarship for many years to come. Susan O Shapiro, Religious Studies Review, Vol.26, No.3. This book provides a fascinating insight into a range of cultural, historical, political and literary aspects of archaic Greece...the articles are very clearly written and usually execute the cross-disciplinary exercise with uncommon good sense. * Ancient History * Some of the most interesting work in classical studies in the past twenty years. * Classical Philology *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones, figures
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
465 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-512415-6 (9780195124156)
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E-Book
07/1998
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Persons
Editor
Associate Professor of Greek and LatinAssociate Professor of Greek and Latin, Wellesley College
Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative LiteratureAssociate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Content
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' Solonion Reflections ; 11. The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 BCE: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy ; Bibliography