Choruses of young women in ancient Greece : their morphology, religious role, and social function /
In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic theory, Calame reconstructs the religious and...
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[1997]
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| Series: | Greek studies
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