Claude Calame

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

Claude Calame

ISBN:9780822630630

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...more details
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Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religous Role, and Social Functions (Book)

Claude Calame

ISBN:9780742515246

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Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religous Role, and Social Functions (Book)

Claude Calame

ISBN:9780742515253

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Greek Mythology (Book)

Claude Calame

ISBN:9780521888585

Myths are not simple narrative plots. In ancient Greece, as in other traditional societies, these tales existed only in the poetic or artistic forms in which they were set down. To read them from an anthropological point of view means to study their meaning according to their forms of expression - epic recitation...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:275

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Myth and History in Ancient Greece (Book)

Claude Calame

ISBN:9780691114583

Surely the ancient Greeks would have been baffled to see what we consider their "mythology". Here, Claude Calame mounts a critique of modern-day misconceptions on this front and the lax methodology that has allowed them to prevail...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:200

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

Claude Calame

ISBN:9780674021242

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...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:267

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Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics (Book)

Claude Calame;Peter M Burk

ISBN:9780801438929

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Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece (Book)

Claude Calame;Janet Lloyd

ISBN:9780691043418

"The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece" offers the first comprehensive inquiry into the deity of sexual love, a power that permeated daily Greek life. Avoiding Foucault's philosophical paradigm of dominance/submission...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:200

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