Performance and culture in Plato's laws THE CITY DANCING /

Performance and culture in Plato's laws THE CITY DANCING / Edited by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Stanford University. - Cambridge : CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)

"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."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction / PART ONE: GEOPOLITICS OF PERFORMANCE -- Cretan harmonies and universal morals: Early music and migrations of wisdom in Plato's laws / STRICTLY BALLROOM: EGYPTIAN MOUSIKE AND PLATO'S COMPARATIVE POETICS / PART TWO: CONCEPTUALISING CHORALITY: -- Choral practices in Plato's laws: itineraries of initiation? / THE CHORUS OF DIONYSUS: ALCOHOL AND OLD AGE IN THE LAWS / IMAGINING CHORALITY: WONDER, PLATO'S PUPPETS AND MOVING STATUES / BROKEN RHYTHMS IN PLATO'S LAWS: MATERIALISING SOCIAL TIME IN THE KHOROS / CHORAL ANTI-AESTHETICS / PART THREE: RE-DEFINING GENRE: THE ORPHANED WORD: THE PHARMAKON OF FORGETFULNESS IN PLATO'S LAWS / PRAISE AND PERFORMANCE IN PLATO'S LAWS / PAIDES MALAKôN MOUSôN: TRAGEDY IN PLATO'S LAWS / THE RHETORIC OF RHAPSODY IN PLATO'S LAWS / THE UNIDEAL GENRES OF THE IDEAL CITY: COMEDY, THRENODY, AND THE MAKING OF CITIZENS IN PLATO'S LAWS / PART FOUR: POETRY AND MUSIC IN THE AFTERLIFE OF THE LAWS: DEREGULATING POETRY: CALLIMACHUS' RESPONSE TO PLATO'S LAWS / THE LAWS AND ARISTOXENUS ON THE CRITERIA OF MUSICAL JUDGEMENT / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi -- Mark Griffith -- Ian Rutherford -- Claude Calame -- Oswyn Murray -- Leslie Kurke -- Barbara Kowalzig -- Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi -- Andrea Nightingale -- Kathryn Morgan -- Penelope Murray -- Richard Martin -- Marcus Folch -- Susan Stephens -- Andrew Barker.



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