Poetic and performative memory in ancient Greece / Claude Calame ; translated from the French by Harlan Patton.

Title
  1. Poetic and performative memory in ancient Greece / Claude Calame ; translated from the French by Harlan Patton.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.
Author
  1. Calame, Claude

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Description
  1. xii, 267 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series statement
  1. Hellenic studies ; 18
Uniform title
  1. Pratiques poétiques de la mémoire. English
  2. Hellenic studies 18.
Alternative title
  1. Pratiques poétiques de la mémoire.
  2. Poetic and performative memory in ancient Greece : heroic reference and ritual gestures in time and space
Subject
  1. Geschichte
  2. Greek poetry > History and criticism
  3. Space and time in literature
  4. Versdichtung
  5. Zeit (Motiv)
  6. Raum (Motiv)
  7. Gedichten
  8. Grieks
  9. Tijd
  10. Ruimte (algemeen)
  11. Griechisch
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. Spatio-temporal poetics of the past in Ancient Greece -- The succession of ages and poetic pragmatics of justice : Hesiod's narrative of the five human species -- Gender and heroic identity between legend and cult : the political creation of Theseus by Bacchylides -- Regimes of historicity and oracular logic : how to re-found a colonial city -- Ritual and initiatory itineraries toward the afterlife : time, space, and pragmatics in the gold lamellae -- By way of conclusion : returns to the present.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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