The city and the stage [electronic resource] : performance, genre, and gender in Plato's Laws / Marcus Folch.
2015
JC71.P264 F65 2015eb
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Title
The city and the stage [electronic resource] : performance, genre, and gender in Plato's Laws / Marcus Folch.
Author
Folch, Marcus, author.
ISBN
9780190266196 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 386 pages)
Item Number
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190266172 doi
Call Number
JC71.P264 F65 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
321.07
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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