Performance and culture in Plato's laws /

Performance and culture in Plato's laws /

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Imprint:Cambridge : CAMBRIDGE University Press, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 460 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Plato -- Language.
Plato. -- Laws.
Plato.
Laws (Plato)
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Language and languages.
Meaning (Philosophy)
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11832561
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Other authors / contributors:Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia, editor.
ISBN:9781107055490
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Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:"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 bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:This volume illuminates an underexplored aspect of Plato's Laws: its uniquely rich discussion of cultural matters.
Other form:Print version: Performance and culture in Plato's laws. Cambridge : CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013 9781107016873
Table of 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.

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