Alcman and the Cosmos of Sparta

Zusammenfassung "The Partheneion"! or 'maiden song!' composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman! is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. This title excavates the poem's invocations of widespread and cosmological ideas that cast the universe as perfectly harmonious and invested its workings with an ethical dimension.

Autorentext
Gloria Ferrari is professor emerita of classical archaeology and art at Harvard University. Her many books include Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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"The Partheneion", or 'maiden song,' composed in the seventh century BCE by the Spartan poet Alcman, is the earliest substantial example of a choral lyric. This title excavates the poem's invocations of widespread and cosmological ideas that cast the universe as perfectly harmonious and invested its workings with an ethical dimension.

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