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- Choral Constructions in Greek Culture
- Choral Constructions in Greek Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Choreia at the Forge: Tripod Cauldrons, Golden Maidens and the Choral Dancers on Achilles’ Shield in Iliad 18
- 2 From the Demonic to the Divine: Gorgons, Cauldrons and Choral Dance
- 3 Flying with the Birds: Avian Choreia and Bird Choruses in Art and Text
- 4 The Carnival of the Animals: Dancing in Herds
- 5 Water Music: Nymphs, Ships and Choral Aquatics
- 6 A Chorus of Columns: Pindar’s Agalmata and the Architectural Chorus
- 7 Choral Fabrications: Weaving, Cloth-Making and Choral Song and Dance
- 8 Choreo-graphy: Choreia and Alphabetic Writing
- 9 Girls in Lines: Catalogues and Choruses
- 10 Choral Envisioning: Archaic and Early Classical Choral Lyric and Post-Classical Accounts of Enargeia
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
7 - Choral Fabrications: Weaving, Cloth-Making and Choral Song and Dance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 May 2021
- Choral Constructions in Greek Culture
- Choral Constructions in Greek Culture
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Choreia at the Forge: Tripod Cauldrons, Golden Maidens and the Choral Dancers on Achilles’ Shield in Iliad 18
- 2 From the Demonic to the Divine: Gorgons, Cauldrons and Choral Dance
- 3 Flying with the Birds: Avian Choreia and Bird Choruses in Art and Text
- 4 The Carnival of the Animals: Dancing in Herds
- 5 Water Music: Nymphs, Ships and Choral Aquatics
- 6 A Chorus of Columns: Pindar’s Agalmata and the Architectural Chorus
- 7 Choral Fabrications: Weaving, Cloth-Making and Choral Song and Dance
- 8 Choreo-graphy: Choreia and Alphabetic Writing
- 9 Girls in Lines: Catalogues and Choruses
- 10 Choral Envisioning: Archaic and Early Classical Choral Lyric and Post-Classical Accounts of Enargeia
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Subject Index
Summary
Among the artefacts distinct to Boeotia are a series of female terracotta figurines dressed in bell-shaped skirts, these fashioned on the potter’s wheel and flattened while still malleable; all are Late Geometric or sub-Geometric and were found in the graves of women and children from the tenth to the eighth century or in votive deposits associated with these. Designs evocative of weaving decorate many of their garments, and the most highly ornamented of the figurines, dated to the late eighth century, comes complete with locks of hair, a necklace, sandals and a frieze of dancing females circling around her richly patterned skirt; the dancers are similarly dressed in woven textiles (fig. 7.0).
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- Choral Constructions in Greek CultureThe Idea of the Chorus in the Poetry, Art and Social Practices of the Archaic and Early Classical Period, pp. 405 - 489Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021