Greek Ritual Poetics

Dimitrios Yatromanolakis editor Panagiotis Roilos editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies

Published:14th Nov '05

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Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, Greek Ritual Poetics offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritual in Greek traditions by exploring a broad spectrum of texts, art, and social practices. This collection of essays written by an international group of leading scholars in a number of disciplines presents a variety of methodological approaches to secular and religious rituals, and to the narrative and conceptual strategies of their reenactment and manipulation in literary, pictorial, and social discourses. Addressing understudied aspects of Greek ritual and societies, this book will prove significant for classicists, anthropologists, Byzantinists, art historians, neohellenists, and comparatists interested in the interaction between ritual, aesthetics, and cultural communicative systems.

ISBN: 9780674017924

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 726g

492 pages