Cultural poetics in archaic Greece : cult, performance, politics
Record details
- ISBN: 0195124154
- ISBN: 9780195352443
- ISBN: 0195352440
- ISBN: 9781280530128
- ISBN: 128053012X
- ISBN: 9780585313320
- ISBN: 0585313326
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (288 pages)
remote - Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993. Based on a conference at Wellesley College in October 1990. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction / Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke -- Poetics of power : the interpretation of ritual action in Archaic Greece / Ian Morris -- The archaeology of ancestors / Carla Antonaccio -- Divine selection : epiphany and politics in Archaic Greece / Rebecca H. Sinos -- Hipparchos and the rhapsodes / H.A. Shapiro -- The seven sages as performers of wisdom / Richard P. Martin -- The economy of kudos / Leslie Kurke -- Hero cult and politics in Herodotus : the bones of Orestes / Deborah Boedeker -- It's murder to found a colony / Carol Dougherty -- Thucydides' Solonian reflections / Andrew Szegedy-Maszak -- The Athenian revolution of 508/7 B.C.E. : violence, authority, and the origins of democracy / Josiah Ober. |
Language Note: | English. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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Subject: | Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C -- Congresses HISTORY -- Ancient Civilization Greece |
Genre: | Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings. |