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It offers free access to a library of texts and images, a machine-interface to that library and its indices, and tools to allow readers to discover and engage with the Homeric tradition. The Homer Multitext project, the first of its kind in Homeric studies, presents the textual transmission of the Iliad and Odyssey in a historical framework. This year’s seminar on the Song Culture of Athenian Drama will take place July 23-29, 2012 at the Center in DC. The seminar, taught by Gregory Nagy and Kenneth Scott Morrell, offers faculty members an opportunity to extend their knowledge of ancient sources and develop strategies for incorporating them into their courses. CHS & CIC Seminar: Ancient Greek Across the CurriculumĮvery year the CHS and the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) cosponsor a seminar on Ancient Greece in the Modern College Classroom for faculty members in all fields. Traversing a wide range of discourse and imagery about kitharôidia–poetic and prose texts, iconography, inscriptions–the book offers a nuanced account of the aesthetic and sociocultural complexities of citharodic song and examines the iconic role of the songmakers in the popular imagination, from mythical citharodes such as Orpheus to the controversial innovator Timotheus, to that most notorious of musical dilettantes, Nero. The Culture of Kitharôidia is the first study dedicated exclusively to the art, practice, and charismatic persona of the citharode. Timothy Power, The Culture of K itharôidia. Through Plato’s eyes, the “staging” of Homer in classical Athens can once again become a virtual reality. Plato’s fine ear for language-in this case the technical language of high-class artisans like rhapsodes-picks up on a variety of authentic expressions that echo the talk of rhapsodes as they once practiced their art. This book examines the overall testimony of Plato as an expert about the cultural legacy of Homeric performances. Gregory Nagy, Plato’s Rhapsody and Homer’s Music: The Poetics of the Panathenaic Festival in Classical Athens. After an extensive theoretical introduction that also serves as a general introduction to the dramatic chorus from the comic vantage point, a close reading of Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae shows that ritual is indeed present in both the micro- and macrostructure of Attic comedy, not as a fossilized remnant of the origins of the genre but as part of a still existing performative choral culture. In this groundbreaking study, Anton Bierl uses recent approaches in literary and cultural studies to investigate the chorus of Old Comedy.
Online PublicationsĪnton Bierl, Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus in Old Comedy. We are pleased to feature the following publications and resources that highlight ancient Greek song culture and ritual contexts.
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