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Cultural poetics in Archaic Greece : cult, performance, politics
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A paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a conference held at Wellesley in 1990. It aims to represent a critical milestone in t...
A paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a conference held at Wellesley in 1990. It aims to represent a critical milestone in the cultural poetics movement, which lies at the intersection of New Historicism and classical studies.
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- Creator
- edited by Carol Dougherty, Leslie Kurke
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780197704462, 0197704468, 9781280530128, 128053012X, 9780195352443, 0195352440, 9780585313320, 0585313326, 0195124154
- OCLC
- ocn191943614, on1406788688
- Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c 1993.
- Based on a conference at Wellesley College in October 1990.
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Poetics of Power: The Interpretation of Ritual Action in Archaic Greece; 3 The Archaeology of Ancestors; 4 Divine Selection: Epiphany and Politics in Archaic Greece; 5 Hipparchos and the Rhapsodes; 6 The Seven Sages as Performers of Wisdom; 7 The Economy of Kudos; 8 Hero Cult and Politics in Herodotus: The Bones of Orestes; 9 It's Murder to Found a Colony; 10 Thucydides' Solonian Reflections; 11 The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C.E.: Violence, Authority, and the Origins of Democracy; Bibliography; Index