Performance and Culture in Plato's Laws / edited by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi, Stanford University.

Text in English.

"Conceived from the beginning as an attempt to elucidate this overlooked component, the volume benefited from a conference held at Stanford University in February, 2007."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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This volume illuminates an underexplored aspect of Plato's Laws: its uniquely rich discussion of cultural matters.

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