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" Proceedings of International Conference on Recent Advancement on Computer and Communication : "
Basant Tiwari, Vivek Tiwari, Kinkar Chandra Das, Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Jagdish C. Bansal, editors.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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52989
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TL22943
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MR60758
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Peter John Miller
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Alcman's “Partheneion” and the Near East\ Peter John Miller
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University of Victoria (Canada)
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2009
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M.A.
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2009
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107
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Alcman's Partheneion has a deserved reputation as an ambiguous and allusive fragment of Greek poetry; it has engendered a great amount of debate regarding every facet of the poem. This thesis investigates the ritual context and the propitiated deity of the Partheneion from an inter-cultural perspective. I integrate the relationship which flourished between Greece and the Near East with Alcman's poetry. This approach aims to situate the poem in the larger world of the Eastern Mediterranean and connect it to traditions of female goddesses worshiped in biblical Israel, Phoenicia and ancient Babylon. I also demonstrate that there are connections between the ritual context of Alcman's poetry, sung and danced by a chorus of young women, to similar cults celebrated by cultures throughout the Near East, both contemporaneous as well as more ancient.
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Social sciences; Language, literature and linguistics; Greece; Classical studies; 0294:Classical studies; 0434:Classical Studies
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University of Victoria (Canada)
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