Marching Choruses: Choral Performance in Attic Drama
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Marching Choruses : Choral Performance in Attic Drama. / Lech, Marcel Lysgaard.
In: Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Vol. 49, No. 3, 2009, p. 343-361.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Marching Choruses
T2 - Choral Performance in Attic Drama
AU - Lech, Marcel Lysgaard
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This article re-examines the evidence for choral marching in the Athenian theatre, which has fostered ideas on the dramatic choruses as military training for young men, ephebes. But the late lexicographical sources are not relating to the dramatic choruses of the fifth-century and are in constant conflict with our text of the plays and literary texts decribing the theatrical context; the lexicographical writings may reflect their own time or other types of choruses e.g. dithyrambic, and can therefore not be held as evidence for 1) the performance of the chorus in fifth-century Athens, 2) tragic dance as education in warfare.
AB - This article re-examines the evidence for choral marching in the Athenian theatre, which has fostered ideas on the dramatic choruses as military training for young men, ephebes. But the late lexicographical sources are not relating to the dramatic choruses of the fifth-century and are in constant conflict with our text of the plays and literary texts decribing the theatrical context; the lexicographical writings may reflect their own time or other types of choruses e.g. dithyrambic, and can therefore not be held as evidence for 1) the performance of the chorus in fifth-century Athens, 2) tragic dance as education in warfare.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Græsk tragedie
KW - Græsk Teater
KW - Græsk komedie
KW - Kor
KW - metrik
KW - Greek Tragedy
KW - Greek Theatre
KW - Greek Comedy
KW - Chorus
KW - lyric metres
M3 - Journal article
VL - 49
SP - 343
EP - 361
JO - Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
JF - Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies
SN - 0072-7482
IS - 3
ER -
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