<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>6</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kowalzig, Barbara</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Singing for the gods: performances of myth and ritual in archaic and classical Greece</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oxford classical monographs</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oxford University Press</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oxford</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">xviii + 508 pp. ill.</style></pages><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Singing for the Gods develops a new approach towards an old question in the study of religion - the relationship of myth and ritual. Focusing on ancient Greek religion, Barbara Kowalzig exploits the joint occurrence of myth and ritual in archaic and classical Greek song-culture. She shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, help to effect social and political change in their own time. Religious song emerges as integral to a rapidly changing society hovering between local, regional, and panhellenic identities and between aristocratic rule and democracy. Drawing on contemporary debates on myth, ritual, and performance in social anthropology, modern history, and theatre studies, this book establishes Greek religion's dynamic role and gives religious song-culture its deserved place in the study of Greek history. [http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/academic/series/classicalstudies/ocm/9780199219964.do?sortby=bookTitleAscend]</style></abstract><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BMCR 2008.09.25 Richard Seaford</style></custom1></record></records></xml>