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Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless
will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his
descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a
statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies
at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and
privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and
morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite
generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to
Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and
pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and
knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective
responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in
classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces
the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its
expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.
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.
Cosmography is defined here as the rhetoric of cosmology: the art
of composing worlds. The mirage of Hyperborea, which played a
substantial role in Greek religion and culture throughout
Antiquity, offers a remarkable window into the practice of
composing and reading worlds. This book follows Hyperborea across
genres and centuries, both as an exploration of the extraordinary
record of Greek thought on that further North and as a case study
of ancient cosmography and the anthropological philology that
tracks ancient cosmography. Trajectories through the many forms of
Greek thought on Hyperborea shed light on key aspects of the
cosmography of cult and the cosmography of literature. The
philology of worlds pursued in this book ranges from Archaic hymns
to Hellenistic and Imperial reconfigurations of Hyperborea. A
thousand years of cosmography is thus surveyed through the
rewritings of one idea. This is a book on the art of reading worlds
slowly.
Ancestral fault is a core idea of Greek literature. 'The guiltless
will pay for the deeds later: either the man's children, or his
descendants thereafter', said Solon in the sixth century BC, a
statement echoed throughout the rest of antiquity. This notion lies
at the heart of ancient Greek thinking on theodicy, inheritance and
privilege, the meaning of suffering, the links between wealth and
morality, individual responsibility, the bonds that unite
generations and the grand movements of history. From Homer to
Proclus, it played a major role in some of the most critical and
pressing reflections of Greek culture on divinity, society and
knowledge. The burning modern preoccupation with collective
responsibility across generations has a long, deep antecedent in
classical Greek literature and its reception. This book retraces
the trajectories of Greek ancestral fault and the varieties of its
expression through the many genres and centuries where it is found.
This volume explores how the choruses of 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.
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