Choral Performance and Geometric Patterns in Epic Poetry and Iconographic Representations

Bibliographic Data

ID20043317
AuthorsJesus Carruesco (corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages69-107
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Look of Lyric : Greek Song and the Visual (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004314849_005
OpenAlexW2549705550
ISBN9789004314849
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited5

The subject of this paper is the relationship between the visual representation of choral performance as described in some epic passages (particularly in the description of the shield of Achilles) and the iconographic language, both figured and geometric, of the Geometric period. The study of this relationship leads to the consideration of a more fundamental issue: the function of choral mimesis in the definition and organization of the space of the polis at multiple levels, physical, social and poetic, through the visual and textual projection of a limited range of symbolic, articulating images upon the watching community. In this wider sense, chorality is defined as a cultural paradigm, including both actual choral performance and its iconographic or textual representations, which underlies, beyond choral lyric, central aspects of Greek culture, particularly in the Archaic period, such as epic poetry or painted pottery

Aesthetics · Ancient Greek · Art · Choir · EPIC · Literature · Poetry · Visual arts · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History

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