Choral tragedy : Greek poetics and musical ritual / Claude Calame, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris ; translated by Vanessa Casato, Universita Ca'Foscari, Venezia.
"Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen bod...
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| Other title: | TrageĢdie chorale. English |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| Series: | Classical scholarship in translation.
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| Summary: | "Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, acting as an instrument through which stories of other times and places were dramatized into resonant heroic narratives for contemporary Athens. By including detailed case studies of three different tragedies (one each by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles), Claude Calame's seminal study not only re-examines the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, but pushes beyond this to argue for the 'polyphony' of choral performance. Here, he explores the fundamentally choral nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which tragedy was performed"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxx, 213 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781009029421 1009029428 9781009034081 1009034081 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781009029421 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |