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Curated Articles

The Delian Maidens and their Relevance to Choral Mimesis in Classical Drama

[Originally published as Chapter 10 in Choral Mediations in Greek Tragedy, ed. R. Gagné and M. G. Hopman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 227-256. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{227|228}” indicates where p. 227 of the printed version ends and p. 228 begins.] Introduction My focus is on the Delian Maidens, as represented in the… Read more

Curated Books

Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Roles, and Social Functions

New and revised edition, translated by Derek Collins and Janice Orion In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and social institutions surrounding the songs, demonstrating their function in an aesthetic education that permitted… Read more

Curated Articles

Transformations of Choral Lyric Traditions in the Context of Athenian State Theater

This text was originally published as an article in Arion 3 (1994/5) 41–55. In this on-line version, the original page-numbers of Nagy 1994/5 will be indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{49 | 50}” indicates where p. 49 of the original article ends and p. 50 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made in previous scholarship to the original printed… Read more