Choral Tragedy : Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual

by: Calame, C.

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Choral Tragedy
Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual

Series: Classical Scholarship in Translation

Author: Claude Calame, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Claude Calame, Vanessa Casato, Simon Goldhill

Ever since Aristotle opened the discussion on the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, theories of the chorus have continued to proliferate and provoke debate to this day. The tragic chorus had its own story to tell; it was a collective identity, speaking within and to a collective citizen body, acting as an instrument through which stories of other times and places were dramatized into resonant heroic narratives for contemporary Athens. By including detailed case studies of three different tragedies (one each by Aeschylus, Euripides and Sophocles), Claude Calame's seminal study not only re-examines the role of the chorus in Greek tragedy, but pushes beyond this to argue for the 'polyphony' of choral performance. Here, he explores the fundamentally choral nature of the genre, and its deep connection to the cultic and ritual contexts in which tragedy was performed.

Provides a substantial reassessment of the ancient Greek tragedy, emphasising its choral and musical nature
Explores the tragic chorus within political, religious and cultural contexts
The second half of the book focuses on the chorus in three prominent Greek tragedies: Aeschylus' Persae, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos and Euripides' Hippolytus

Table of Contents
1. The essence of 'The Tragic'
2. Tragedy, cult, and ritual
3. Choral polyphonies and tragedy
4. Aeschylus' Persians: questioning choral identity
Euripides' Hippolytus: choral song and gender
6. Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus: 'Why Should I Dance (Chorally)?'
7. Poets, tragic diction, and tragic fiction.

Contributors
Claude Calame, Vanessa Casato, Simon Goldhill

Author
Claude Calame , Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
CLAUDE CALAME is Director of studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (Centre AnHiMA: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques) and was previously Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Lausanne. He has specialized in the study of Greek poetic texts from an ethnopoetic perspective, an approach relying on historical anthropology, the history of religions and discourse analysis. Many of his books have appeared in English translation: The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece (1995), The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece (1999), Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece (2nd ed., 2001), Myth and History in Ancient Greece. The Symbolic Creation of a Colony (2003), Masks of Authority. Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics (2005), Poetic and Performative Memory in Ancient Greece (2009), Greek Mythology. Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction (Cambridge, 2009), and Humans and Their Environment. Beyond the Nature/Culture Opposition (2023).

Translator
Vanessa Casato , Universita Ca'Foscari, Venezia
Simon Goldhill , University of Cambridge

Choral Tragedy : Greek Poetics and Musical Ritual

by: Calame, C.

• ISBN-13: 9781009014427 / 978-1-009-01442-7
• ISBN-03: 1009014420 / 1-009-01442-0
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025

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• ISBN-13: 9780472057481 / 978-0-472-05748-1
• ISBN-03: 0472057480 / 0-472-05748-0
• University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2025

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