UID:
almafu_9958080722902883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 460 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-139-88866-8
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1-107-06498-8
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1-107-63015-0
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1-139-06167-4
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1-107-05768-X
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1-107-05896-1
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1-107-05549-0
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1-107-05447-8
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1-107-05658-6
Content:
This volume is dedicated to an intriguing Platonic work, the Laws. Probably the last dialogue Plato wrote, the Laws represents the philosopher's most fully developed views on many crucial questions that he had raised in earlier works. Yet it remains a largely unread and underexplored dialogue. Abounding in unique and valuable references to dance and music, customs and norms, the Laws seems to suggest a comprehensive model of culture for the entire polis - something unparalleled in Plato. This exceptionally rich discussion of cultural matters in the Laws requires the scrutiny of scholars whose expertise resides beyond the boundaries of pure philosophical inquiry. The volume offers contributions by fourteen scholars who work in the broader areas of literary, cultural and performance studies.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-01687-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-70658-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
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