Imagining the chorus in Augustan poetry

Imagining the chorus in Augustan poetry / Lauren Curtis, Bard College, New York.

"From archaic Sparta to classical Athens the chorus was a pervasive feature of Greek social and cultural life. Until now, however, its reception in Roman literature and culture has been little appreciated. This book examines how the chorus is reimagined in a brief but crucial period in the hist...

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Main Author: Curtis, Lauren, 1984- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Augustus, > Emperor of Rome, > 63 B.C.-14 A.D. > Influence.
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Drama > Chorus.
Music and literature > To 1500.
Poetry > Social aspects > Rome > History.
Literature and society > Rome > History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the chorus in the Augustan imagination
  • 1. Imagined choruses from Alexandria to Rome
  • 2. Dance and desire in Propertius' Elegies
  • 3. Horace and the erotics of the lyric chorus
  • 4. Canon, community, and chorus
  • 5. Virgil's Aeneid and the relocation of ritual
  • 6. Foundational choreography in the Aeneid
  • Epilogue: 'now all the earth will dance'.

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