Poetic and performative memory in ancient Greece
Subtitle: heroic reference and ritual gestures in time and space
By: by Claude Calame ; translated from the French by Harlan Patton.
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Stuides, Trustees for Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, DC; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780674021242
Subjects: Greek poetry -- History and criticism; Space and time in literature
Work titles: Pratiques poétiques de la mémoire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spatio-temporal poetics of the past in Ancient Greece : "memory is the present of the past."; title: The succession of ages and poetic pragmatics of justice : Hesiod's narrative of the five human species; title: Creation of gender and heroic identity between legend and cult : the political creation of Theseus by Bacchylides; title: Regimes of historicity and oracular logic : how to re-found a colonial city?; title: Ritual and initiatory itineraries toward the afterlife : time, space, and pragmatics in the gold lamellae; title: By way of conclusion : returns to the present.