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1 online resource (xi, 460 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"Conceived from the beginning as an attempt to elucidate this overlooked component, the volume benefited from a conference held at Stanford University in February, 2007." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi -- PART ONE: GEOPOLITICS OF PERFORMANCE -- Cretan harmonies and universal morals: Early music and migrations of wisdom in Plato's laws / Mark Griffith -- STRICTLY BALLROOM: EGYPTIAN MOUSIKE AND PLATO'S COMPARATIVE POETICS / Ian Rutherford -- PART TWO: CONCEPTUALISING CHORALITY: -- Choral practices in Plato's laws: itineraries of initiation? / Claude Calame -- THE CHORUS OF DIONYSUS: ALCOHOL AND OLD AGE IN THE LAWS / Oswyn Murray -- IMAGINING CHORALITY: WONDER, PLATO'S PUPPETS AND MOVING STATUES / Leslie Kurke -- BROKEN RHYTHMS IN PLATO'S LAWS: MATERIALISING SOCIAL TIME IN THE KHOROS / Barbara Kowalzig -- CHORAL ANTI-AESTHETICS / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi -- PART THREE: RE-DEFINING GENRE: THE ORPHANED WORD: THE PHARMAKON OF FORGETFULNESS IN PLATO'S LAWS / Andrea Nightingale -- PRAISE AND PERFORMANCE IN PLATO'S LAWS / Kathryn Morgan -- PAIDES MALAKôN MOUSôN: TRAGEDY IN PLATO'S LAWS / Penelope Murray -- THE RHETORIC OF RHAPSODY IN PLATO'S LAWS / Richard Martin -- THE UNIDEAL GENRES OF THE IDEAL CITY: COMEDY, THRENODY, AND THE MAKING OF CITIZENS IN PLATO'S LAWS / Marcus Folch -- PART FOUR: POETRY AND MUSIC IN THE AFTERLIFE OF THE LAWS: DEREGULATING POETRY: CALLIMACHUS' RESPONSE TO PLATO'S LAWS / Susan Stephens -- THE LAWS AND ARISTOXENUS ON THE CRITERIA OF MUSICAL JUDGEMENT / Andrew Barker. |
| Summary |
This volume illuminates an underexplored aspect of Plato's Laws: its uniquely rich discussion of cultural matters. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Plato -- Language.
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Plato. |
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Plato. Laws.
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Laws (Plato) |
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Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Rhetoric, Ancient. |
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Meaning (Philosophy)
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Meaning (Philosophy) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Performance and culture in Plato's laws. Cambridge : CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 9781107016873 (DLC) 2012035665 (OCoLC)811777320 |
| ISBN |
9781107055490 (electronic book) |
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1107055490 (electronic book) |
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9781139061674 (electronic book) |
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1139061674 (electronic book) |
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1299706584 (e-book) |
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9781299706583 (e-book) |
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9781107058965 |
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1107058961 |
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9781107016873 |
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1107016878 |
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9781107630154 |
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1107630150 |
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