Musical choir as an anthropological place in the athenian society at the end of the sixth century BC. through the imagetical analysis of attic pottery

Authors

  • Felipe Nascimento de Araujo Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v7i7p99-119

Keywords:

chorus, performance, pottery, isonomy, sixth century B.C.

Abstract

Based on Marc Augé’s concept of anthropological place, this article aims to establish a brief analysis of how musical choirs relate to the idea of Athenian citizenship that was built from the period of tyrannical rule until the reforms of Cleisthenes. This historical context is defined by the establishment of isonomy, that is, the government based on citizen’s equality in relation to the law (nómos). Participation in the boulé, civic festivals, and in the hoplite phalanx are examples of the social and political changes promoted by the new form of government. Choral performances’ function as a component in the constitution of Athenian citizenship identity seems to be related with both the development of the hoplite formation and choral performances’ presence in great civic festivals which had been held since the time of tyranny (560-510 a.C.). Evidence of these relations are found in the imagetic of Attic pottery, here exemplified in the analysis Heron’ skýphos

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Author Biography

  • Felipe Nascimento de Araujo, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
    Mestrando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

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Published

2017-03-27

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Vol. 7 No. 7 (2016)

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Musical choir as an anthropological place in the athenian society at the end of the sixth century BC. through the imagetical analysis of attic pottery. (2017). Mare Nostrum, 7(7), 99-119. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v7i7p99-119