Greek Ritual Poetics (Hellenic Studies)
Contributors: Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Editor); Panagiotis Roilos (Editor)
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies
Published: October 15, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780674017924
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Sociology; History - General History; Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Ancient Greece; History and criticism; Ancient - Greece; Ancient and Classical; History / Ancient / Greece; Greece; Greek literature; Literature and anthropology; Rites and ceremonies in literature
Description: "Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, Greek Ritual Poetics offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritual in Greek traditions by exploring a broad spectrum of texts, art, and social practices. This collection of essays written by an international group of leading scholars in a number of disciplines presents a variety of methodological approaches to secular and religious rituals, and to the narrative and conceptual strategies of their re-enactment and manipulation in literary, pictorial, and social discourses. Addressing underexplored aspects of Greek ritual and societies, this book will prove significant for classicists, anthropologists, Byzantinists, art historians, neohellenists, and comparatists interested in the interaction between ritual, aesthetics, and cultural communicative systems."--BOOK JACKET.