Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (Oxford Classical Monographs)

Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece (Oxford Classical Monographs)

by Barbara Kowalzig (Author)

Synopsis

A new approach to an old question - the relationship between myth and ritual. Barbara Kowalzig shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, helped to effect social and political change in their own time.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 13 Dec 2007

ISBN 10: 0199219966
ISBN 13: 9780199219964