Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Role and Social Functions

by Claude Calame, Janice Orion, Derek Collins

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted the young girls to achieve the stature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082263063X
• ISBN13: 9780822630630
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"