Choral tragedy: Greek poetics and musical ritual

Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, act...

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Main Author: Calame, Claude 1943- (Author)
Other Authors: Casato, Vanessa (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2024
Series:Classical scholarship in translation
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Summary:Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, acting as an instrument through which stories of other times and places were dramatized into resonant heroic narratives for contemporary Athens. By including detailed case studies of three different tragedies (one each by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles), Claude Calame's seminal study not only re-examines the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, but pushes beyond this to argue for the 'polyphony' of choral performance. Here, he explores the fundamentally choral nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which tragedy was performed
Item Description:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Apr 2024)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 213 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009029421
DOI:10.1017/9781009029421

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