| Description |
xiii, 438 pages : illustration ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 390-429) and index. |
| Contents |
Muses and mysteries / Alex Hardie -- Changing choral worlds : song-dance and society in Athens and beyond / Barbara Kowalzig -- Song-dance and state-pilgrimage at Athens / Ian Rutherford -- Dancing the Pyrrhichē in Athens / Paola Ceccarelli -- Choral prayer in Greek tragedy : euphemia or aischrologia? / Eva Stehle -- Choral forms in Aristophanic comedy : musical mimesis and dramatic performance in classical Athens / Claude Calame -- Transforming the nightingale : aspects of Athenian musical discourse in the late fifth century / Andrew Barker -- The politics of the new music / Eric Csapo -- Damon of Oa : a music theorist ostracized? / Robert W. Wallace -- Athenian strings / Peter Wilson -- Catharis : the power of music in Aristotle's Politics / Andrew Ford -- Dirty dancing : Xenophon's Symposium / Victoria Wohl -- Muses and their arts / Penelope Murray. |
| Subject |
Music, Greek and Roman -- Social aspects.
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Music, Greek and Roman. |
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Social aspects. |
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Performing arts -- Social aspects -- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
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Performing arts -- Social aspects. |
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Greece. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C |
| Subject |
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
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Civilization. |
| Added Author |
Murray, Penelope.
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Wilson, Peter, 1964-
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| ISBN |
0199242399 |
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