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Dithyramb in Context (Hardcover)
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Dithyramb in Context (Hardcover)
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The dithyramb, a choral song associated mostly with the god
Dionysos, is the longest-surviving form of collective performance
in Greek culture, lasting in its shifting shapes from the seventh
century BC into late antiquity. Yet it has always stood in the
shadow of its more glamorous relations - tragedy, comedy, and the
satyr-play. This volume, with contributions from international
experts in the field, is the first to look at dithyramb in its
entirety, understanding it as an important social and cultural
phenomenon of Greek antiquity.
Dithyramb in Context explores the idea that the dithyramb is much
more than a complex poetic form: the history of the dithyramb is a
history of changing performance cultures which form part of a
continuous social process. How the dithyramb functions as a marker,
as well as a carrier, of social change throughout Greek antiquity
is expressed in themes as various as performance and ritual,
poetics and intertextuality, music and dance, and history and
politics. Drawing together literary critics, historians of
religion, archaeologists, epigraphers, and historians, this volume
applies a wide historical and geographical framework, scrutinizing
the poetry and, for the first time, giving due weight to the
evidence of epigraphy and the visual arts.
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