Details

Subject(s)

• Music, Greek and Roman—History and criticism [Browse]
• Music, Greek and Roman—Philosophy and aesthetics [Browse]

Editor

• Lynch, Tosca [Browse]
• Lynch, Tosca [Browse]
• Rocconi, Eleonora [Browse]
• Rocconi, Eleonora [Browse]

Series

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. [More in this series]

Summary note

"This chapter provides an overview of the Muses in Greek mythology and argues that their multiplicity, their indefinite number, their lack of fixed personalities and their metapoetic status make them highly unusual members of the Olympian pantheon. As the embodiment of music and the means by which music is channelled to human beings they are essential to our understanding of the meaning of mousikē in Greek culture. Above all their origins in an oral society foregrounds the performative nature of music which has characterised it as an art form throughout the ages."-- Provided by publisher

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

ISBN

• 1-119-27549-0
• 1-119-27551-2

OCLC

1140376214

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