Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece

Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece
Author: Claude Calame
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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The Ancient Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social practice of the present. This book shows how the Ancient Greeks' collective memory was based on a remarkable faculty for the creation of ritual and narrative symbols.


Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Claude Calame
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The Ancient Greeks not only spoke of time unfolding in a specific space, but also projected the past upon the future in order to make it active in the social pr
Poetry and Its Public in Ancient Greece
Language: en
Pages: 412
Authors: Bruno Gentili
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990-02 - Publisher:

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Brilliantly applying insights and methodologies from anthropology, literary theory, and the social sciences to the historical study of archaic lyric, Poetry and
Greek Memories
Language: en
Pages: 445
Authors: Luca Castagnoli
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-24 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to
Greek Mythology
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Claude Calame
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Argues that the meaning of Greek myths can only be studied according to their artistic forms of expression. Using myths such as those of Persephone, Bellerophon
Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Greek Poetry
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Peter Mackridge
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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This volume contains essays by 15 scholars. One essay deals with myth in the Cretan renaissance (16th-17th centuries), while the rest cover the use of ancient m