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Claude Calame, Choruses of Young Women: Frontmatter

Editor’s Foreword {v|vi} Building on the foundations of scholarship within the disciplines of philology, philosophy, history, and archaeology, this series spans the continuum of Greek traditions extending from the second millennium B.C.E. to the present, not just the Archaic and Classical periods. The aim is to enhance perspectives by applying various disciplines to problems that have in the past been treated as the exclusive concern of a… Read more

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Claude Calame, Choruses of Young Women-Chapter 1: Introduction

Introduction The research presented here has its origins in the philological controversy carried on for the last hundred years concerning the poem generally known as the “first Partheneion” by Alcman; following tradition, the fragment is the first of the poems attributed to Alcman in the Poetae Melici Graeci edited by D.L. Page (Oxford 1962), to which edition I shall refer throughout. Even if we are now sure… Read more

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Claude Calame, Choruses of Young Women-Chapter 2: Morphology of the Lyric Chorus

Morphology of the Lyric Chorus {18|19} The first step in comprehending what unites the participants in the choral performance is to study the various elements that make up a female lyric chorus during the Archaic period. To understand not only the formal character, but also the dynamic aspect of this unity, I shall study its function as much as its formal structure. The lyric Greek chorus is… Read more

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Claude Calame, Choruses of Young Women-Chapter 3: Chorus and Ritual

Chorus and Ritual Up to now, my analysis of the chorus has been mainly morphological; I have described its internal organization and defined the positions and roles assigned to each of its participants. The relationship between choregos and chorus-members is at the heart of the ensemble. The function of the choregos is to set up and conduct the chorus, and he/she is responsible for the arrangement and… Read more

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Chapter 5. Fas

Chapter 7. Religion and Superstition Abstract Since the Indo-Europeans did not conceive of that omnipresent reality which religion represents as a separate institution, they had no term to designate it. In those languages which do present such a term it is of great interest to trace the process by which it was constituted. In Ionic Greek, in Herodotus, the term thrēskeíē properly refers to the observances of cult prescriptions. The… Read more