Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws

Herausgeber: Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume illuminates an underexplored aspect of Plato's Laws: its uniquely rich discussion of cultural matters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 474
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 914g
• ISBN-13: 9781107016873
• ISBN-10: 1107016878
• Artikelnr.: 37066580

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi; Part I. Geopolitics of
Performance: 2. Cretan harmonies and universal morals: early music and
migrations of wisdom in Plato's Laws Mark Griffith; 3. Strictly ballroom:
Egyptian mousike and Plato's comparative poetics Ian Rutherford; Part II.
Conceptualising Chorality: 4. Choral practices in Plato's Laws: itineraries
of initiation? Claude Calame; 5. The chorus of Dionysus: alcohol and old
age in the Laws Oswyn Murray; 6. Imagining chorality: wonder, Plato's
puppets and moving statutes Leslie Kurke; 7. Broken rhythms in Plato's
Laws: materializing social time in the khoros Barbara Kowalzig; 8. Choral
anti-aesthetics Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi; Part III. Redefining Genre: 9.
The orphaned word: the pharmakon of forgetfulness in Plato's Laws Andrea
Nightingale; 10. Praise and performance in Plato's Laws Kathryn Morgan; 11.
Paides malakôn mousôn: tragedy in Plato's Laws Penelope Murray; 12. The
rhetoric of rhapsody in Plato's Laws Richard Martin; 13. The unideal genres
of the ideal city: comedy, threnody, and the making of citizens in Plato's
Laws Marcus Folch; Part IV. Poetry and Music in the Afterlife of the Laws:
14. Deregulating poetry: Callimachus' response to Plato's Laws Susan
Stephens; 15. The Laws and Aristoxenus on the criteria of musical judgement
Andrew Barker.