| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 386 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Performance and the Second-Best City -- Marionettes of the Soul: Performance and the Psychology of Mousike in Plato's Laws -- The Chorus and the Critic: Literary Criticism, Theatrocracy, and the Performance of Philosophy -- Law's Genress: Hymns, Encomia, and the Remaking of Lament -- Unideal Genres and the Ideal City: Comedy, Threnody, Tragedy, and the Limits of the City Dancing -- Women's Statuses in Plato's Laws: Nature, Gender, Law, and the Performance of Citizenship -- Engenderring Harmony: Women's Songs in Plato's Laws -- Epilogue: Plato's Last Song: A Postlude on Law and the Preludes |
| Summary |
What role did the performance of poetry, music, song, and dance play in the political life of the ancient city? How has philosophy positioned itself and articulated its own ambitions in relation to the poet tradition? This book poses such questions through a reading of Plato's last, longest, and unfinished work, the Laws |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Plato. Laws.
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Laws (Plato) |
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Greek drama -- History and criticism
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Greek drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190266189 |
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019026618X |
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9780190266196 |
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0190266198 |
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