Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece: Heroic Reference and Ritual Gestures in Time and Space

by Claude Calame

Philosophers have often reflected on the Ancient Greeks' concepts of time, but an anthropological approach is necessary to understand their practical concept of time as tied to space. The Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social practice of the present. Hesiod's history of humanity was intended to establish justice in the modern city; Bacchylides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067402124X
• ISBN13: 9780674021242
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"