Archaic Greek epigram and dedication : representation and reperformance / Joseph W. Day.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xxii, 321 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521896306
  • 0521896304
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 888/.010209 22
LOC classification:
  • PA3123 .D39 2010
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. (Re)presentation and (re)performance; 2. Contexts of encounters and the question of reading; 3. Presenting the dedication; 4. Presenting the god; 5. Presenting the dedicator; 6. Presenting the act of dedicating.
Summary: "By the end of the Archaic period, Greek sanctuaries were bursting with dedications, including many that bore epigrams. This study views dedications comprehensively as sites of ritual efficacy, and in particular it recovers epigrams' reflections of and contributions to that efficacy and restores them to an important place in the panorama of Greek religious practice. In order to reconstruct the Archaic experience of reading and viewing, the book draws on studies of traditional poetic language as resonant with immanent meaning, early Greek poetry as socially and religiously effective performance, and viewing art as an active response of aesthetic appreciation. It argues that reading epigrams while viewing dedications generated effects of religious ritual and poetic performance, and that visual and verbal representation of the dedicator's act of offering associated that rite with similar effects, thereby framing the experiences of readers and viewers as reperformances of the earlier occasion"--
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: 1. (Re)presentation and (re)performance; 2. Contexts of encounters and the question of reading; 3. Presenting the dedication; 4. Presenting the god; 5. Presenting the dedicator; 6. Presenting the act of dedicating.

"By the end of the Archaic period, Greek sanctuaries were bursting with dedications, including many that bore epigrams. This study views dedications comprehensively as sites of ritual efficacy, and in particular it recovers epigrams' reflections of and contributions to that efficacy and restores them to an important place in the panorama of Greek religious practice. In order to reconstruct the Archaic experience of reading and viewing, the book draws on studies of traditional poetic language as resonant with immanent meaning, early Greek poetry as socially and religiously effective performance, and viewing art as an active response of aesthetic appreciation. It argues that reading epigrams while viewing dedications generated effects of religious ritual and poetic performance, and that visual and verbal representation of the dedicator's act of offering associated that rite with similar effects, thereby framing the experiences of readers and viewers as reperformances of the earlier occasion"--

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