Table des matières
Chapter 2. How to do rituals with words
- Comic hymns as Greek khoreia
- Hymns in the parabasis
- Double identity of khoros in parabatic odes
- Meta-chorality
- Prayers and the language of sacrifice
- Peace
- Wasps
- Birds
- Women at the Thesmophoria
- Prayers as ritual communication
- Shouts
- Terminology: The case of the ‘Pythian shout’
- Shouts as ritual communication
- Oracles as ritual speech
- Transmission and authenticity
- Exegesis as ritual speech
- Some concluding observations
