Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Mousike and Religion
1: Alexander Hardie: Muses and Mysteries
2: Barbara Kowalzig: Changing choral worlds: song-dance and society in Athens and beyond
3: Ian Rutherford: Song-dance and state-pilgrimage at Athens
4: Paola Ceccarelli: Dancing the pyrrhikhe
Part II: Mousike on Stage
5: Eva Stehle: Choral prayer in Greek tragedy: euphemia or aischrologia?
6: Claude Calame: Choral forms in Aristophanic comedy: musical mimesis and dramatic performance in classical Athens
7: Andrew Barker: Transforming the nightingale: aspects of Athenian musical discourse in the late fifth century
Part III: The Politics of Mousike
8: Eric Csapo: The Politics of the New Music
9: Robert Wallace: Damon of Oa: a music theorist ostracized
10: Peter Wilson: Athenian strings
Part IV: Mousike and Paideia
11: Andrew Ford: catharsis: the power of music in Aristotle's Politics
12: Victoria Wohl: Dirty dancing: Xenophon's Symposium
13: Penelope Murray: The Muses and their arts

About the Author

Penelope Murray is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Warwick Peter Wilson is University Lecturer in Classics and Fellow of New College, Oxford

Reviews

This is an important collection of essays - for scholars, certainly, and for those interested in Athenian culture and society.
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