| Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy Contributor(s): Gagné, Renaud (Editor), Hopman, Marianne Govers (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1316613569 ISBN-13: 9781316613566 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - Drama | Ancient & Classical - History | Ancient - General |
| Dewey: 882.010 |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6" W x 9" (1.29 lbs) 440 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume explores how the choruses of Ancient Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hopman, Marianne Govers: - Marianne Govers Hopman is Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University, Illinois, where she specialises in ancient Greek and Latin poetry and mythology. Her publications include articles on Homer, Greek tragedy, Greek hymns and Roman satire, and a book, Scylla: Myth, Metaphor, Paradox (2013).Gagne, Renaud: - Renaud Gagné is a University Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Pembroke College. His main research interests are early Greek poetry and Greek religion. He is a co-editor of Sacrifices humains. Perspectives croisées et représentations (2013) and the author of Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2013). |