Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Calame, Claude

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Stuides, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Description

xii, 267 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Hellenic studies ; 18

Uniform Title

• Hellenic studies ; 18.
• Pratiques poétiques de la mémoire. English

Alternative Title

Pratiques poétiques de la mémoire.

Subject

• Greek poetry > History and criticism
• Space and time in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 10-3441

ISBN

• 9780674021242 (pbk.)
• 067402124X

LCCN

2008014630

OCLC

217263944

Author

Calame, Claude.

Title

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

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Stuides, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2009.

Series

Hellenic studies ; 18

Hellenic studies ; 18.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 10-3441