Claude Calame is professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Imaginative, groundbreaking and scrupulously documented, Claude
Calame's masterful treatment of female choruses in Greek society is
widely recognized as one of the most fundamental books ever written
on archaic lyric poetry and musical culture. In its revised form it
will reach an even wider audience and continue to be an
indispensable research tool for students of Greek poetics, myth,
and religion.
*Albert Henrichs, Harvard University*
This book is an absolute must for anyone working in women's
history, Greek literature, or Greek religion . . . One of the
masterpieces of late-twentieth century classical scholarship.
*Bryn Mawr Classical Review*
There can be few classicists who are unaware of the impact that
Calame's work has had on the study of archaic lyric poetry, and on
our understanding of the central importance of choral performance
in the cultural life of Greece. But this clear and elegant
translation will now enable anglophone readers to appreciate
Calame's contribution in all its detail and comlexity...Calame's
book has profoundly affected the way we think about the nature and
function of archaic lyric poetry and will continue to do so for
many years to come.
*The Classical Review*
Claude Calame's wide-ranging and brilliant study of the educative
and initiatory function of the Greek choral poetry has long been
indispensible for understanding the performative and ritual
contexts that give early Greek poetry its distinctive character.
The English edition, with its updated bibliography, is a most
welcome addition to this series.
*Charles Segal*
A brilliant application of anthropological method to archaic choral
performance, with implications that go far beyond the particular
choruses names in the title.
*Lowell Edmunds, Rutgers University*
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