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

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 Studies, 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
  • Pratiques poétiques de la mémoire. English
  • Hellenic studies 18.
Alternative Title
  • Pratiques poétiques de la mémoire.
  • Poetic and performative memory in ancient Greece : heroic reference and ritual gestures in time and space
Subject
  • Greek poetry > History and criticism
  • Space and time in literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780674021242
  • 067402124X
LCCN
^^2008014630
OCLC
  • 217263944
  • SCSB-10914577
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library