Cultural poetics in archaic Greece : cult, performance, politics / [edited by] Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke.

Originally published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Based on a conference at Wellesley College in October 1990.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This is a paperback reprint of a hardback originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, and derived from a seminal conference held at Wellesley in 1990. Among the scholarly community, the book is generally regarded as the first critical milestone in the cultural poetics movement, which lies at the intersection of New Historicism and classical studies.

Introduction / Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke -- Poetics of power : the interpretation of ritual action in Archaic Greece / Ian Morris -- The archaeology of ancestors / Carla Antonaccio -- Divine selection : epiphany and politics in Archaic Greece / Rebecca H. Sinos -- Hipparchos and the rhapsodes / H.A. Shapiro -- The seven sages as performers of wisdom / Richard P. Martin -- The economy of kudos / Leslie Kurke -- Hero cult and politics in Herodotus : the bones of Orestes / Deborah Boedeker -- It's murder to found a colony / Carol Dougherty -- Thucydides' Solonian reflections / Andrew Szegedy-Maszak -- The Athenian revolution of 508/7 B.C.E. : violence, authority, and the origins of democracy / Josiah Ober.

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