Singing for the Gods

Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-963950-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 778 g

Singing for the Gods develops a new approach towards an old question in the study of religion - the relationship of myth and ritual. Focusing on ancient Greek religion, Barbara Kowalzig exploits the joint occurrence of myth and ritual in archaic and classical Greek song-culture. She shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, help to effect social and political change in their own time. Religious song emerges as integral to a rapidly changing society hovering between local, regional, and panhellenic identities and between aristocratic rule and democracy. Drawing on contemporary debates on myth, ritual, and performance in social anthropology, modern history, and theatre studies, this book establishes Greek religion's dynamic role and gives religious song-culture its deserved place in the study of Greek history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kowalzig, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Prelude to the khoros

- 1: Introduction

- 2: Dancing on Delos

- 3: New Tunes in Musical Argos: Mapping out the Argolid in Cultic Song

- 4: Locality and Panhellenism: Aiginetan Myth and Delphic Ritual

- 5: Returning to the Beginning: Insular Identity on Fifth-Century Rhodes

- 6: Aetiology Overseas: From Epic to Ethnic Identity in Megale Hellas

- 7: Who were the Boiotians? Myths of Migration in Ritual

- Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Kowalzig is Leverhulme Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.