Music and the Muses: The Culture of ’Mousike’ in the Classical Athenian City

Abstract

Introduction PART I: MOUSIKE AND RELIGION 1. Muses and Mysteries 2. Changing choral worlds: song-dance and society in Athens and beyond 3. Song-dance and state-pilgrimage at Athens 4. Dancing the pyrrhikhe PART II: MOUSIKE ON STAGE 5. Choral prayer in Greek tragedy: euphemia or aischrologia? 6. Choral forms in Aristophanic comedy: musical mimesis and dramatic performance in classical Athens 7. Transforming the nightingale: aspects of Athenian musical discourse in the late fifth century PART III: THE POLITICS OF MOUSIKE 8. The Politics of the New Music 9. Damon of Oa: a music theorist ostracized 10. Athenian strings PART IV: MOUSIKE AND PAIDEIA 11. catharsis: the power of music in Aristotle's Politics 12. Dirty dancing: Xenophon's Symposium 13. The Muses and their arts

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