Changing Choral Worlds: Song-Dance and Society in Athens and Beyond

Kowalzig, Barbara

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“…For the imitation of Poseidon and Athena in the primeval cities of the Critias, see Section 2.5. 69 Kowalzig (2004) 45-9 rightly notes that the Athenian differentiates the twelve gods by assigning to each of them a separate festival with choral, musical and athletic competitions (8.828b-d), but her conclusion that the Athenian urges not to 'mix the gods but keep them clearly distinct' and achieves it by distinguishing 'between different types of worship and, more importantly, the community's attitude towards a particular god' is unwarranted. First, the passage in question separates the honours to the Olympian gods from the chthonian rites: ἔτι δὲ καὶ τὸ τῶν χθονίων καὶ ὅσους αὖ θεοὺς οὐρανίους ἐπονομαστέον καὶ τὸ τῶν τούτοις ἑπομένων οὐ συμμεικτέον ἀλλὰ χωριστέον (8.828c6-8).…”

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Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy

Bartninkas

2023

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This book sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between the traditional and cosmic gods. A close reading of the later dialogues shows that the two families of gods are routinely deployed to organise and structure Plato's accounts of the origins of the universe and of humanity and its social institutions, and to illuminate the moral and political ideals of philosophical utopias. Vilius Bartninkas argues that the presence of the two kinds of gods creates a dynamic, yet productive, tension in Plato's thinking which is unmistakable and which is not resolved until the works of his students. Thus the book closes by exploring how the cosmological and religious ideas of Plato's later dialogues resurfaced in the Early Academy and how the debates initiated there ultimately led to the collapse of this theological distinction.

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Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy

Bartninkas

2023

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“…See esp. Nightingale (1999); Murray (2002); Kowalzig (2004); the contributions in Peponi (2013); Folch (2015), 154-225;(2018b).…”

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Is Red Figure the New Black? The Imprisonment of Women in Classical Athens

Folch

2021

Ramus

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Were women imprisoned in classical Athens? To search for an answer to this question in the secondary literature is to be met with deafening silence. Few scholars have examined evidence for the incarceration of women in the ancient Mediterranean, and the little work that has been done remains focused in such marginal (from the vantage of traditional classics departments) areas as Late Antique studies and early Christianity. When classicists speak of prisoners and prisons, we mean men and the ways men control men.

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“…On Athens (and other cities) as a song-culture, see14 Kowalzig (2004) 48 and 60.West (1992) ch.l, esp. 16-17;Wilson (2000a) passim;Herington (1985) passim.…”

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The competence of theatre audiences in fifth- and fourth-century Athens

Revermann

2006

J. Hell. Stud.

128

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AbstractAfter dismissing various possible approaches to the question of audience competence in fifth- and fourth-century Athens, this article proposes to tackle this important and notorious problem with a novel strategy that is not ‘top-down’ but ‘bottom-up’, starting with spectators rather than plays and focusing on the bottom-line of expertise which can be taken to be shared by the majority of audience members. An umbrella-notion of ‘theatrical competence’ is established before two central characteristics of drama performed in Athens are exploited: the participation of spectators in the citizen-chorus at the Great Dionysia, and the implications for the competence issue of frequent exposure to an art form which is as formally conservative as preserved Attic drama. What emerges is a model of stratified decoding by spectators (élite and non-élite) who share a considerable level of theatrical competence. In a final step, this model is applied to a number of case studies taken from fifth-century comedy.

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Changing Choral Worlds: Song-Dance and Society in Athens and Beyond

Cited by 69 publications

References 93 publications

Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy

Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy

Is Red Figure the New Black? The Imprisonment of Women in Classical Athens

The competence of theatre audiences in fifth- and fourth-century Athens

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