Investigating ritual in Greece from cross-disciplinary and transhistorical perspectives, Greek Ritual Poetics offers novel readings of the pivotal role of ritual in Greek traditions by exploring a broad spectrum of texts, art, and social practices. This collection of essays written by an international group of leading scholars in a number of disciplines presents a variety of methodological approaches to secular and religious rituals, and to the narrative and conceptual strategies of their reenactment and manipulation in literary, pictorial, and social discourses. Addressing understudied aspects of Greek ritual and societies, this book will prove significant for classicists, anthropologists, Byzantinists, art historians, neohellenists, and comparatists interested in the interaction between ritual, aesthetics, and cultural communicative systems.
HELLENIC STUDIES SERIES

Hellenic Studies Series 3
Greek Ritual Poetics
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$39.95 • £34.95 • €36.95
ISBN 9780674017924
Publication Date: 10/15/2005
492 pages
21 halftones
Center for Hellenic Studies > Hellenic Studies Series
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