Performances rituelles et expression des hiérarchies sociales dans la Grèce de l’âge du Fer
In Homeric epics, the consecration by fire of the bovine, caprine and ovine bones is presented as a religious performance carefully theatralized: each actor taking place in the chosen space for the ceremony has a specific role to play following a choreography determined in advance. The arrangement o...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
| Published: |
Presses universitaires du Midi
2018-12-01
|
| Series: | Pallas |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/8860 |
| Summary: | In Homeric epics, the consecration by fire of the bovine, caprine and ovine bones is presented as a religious performance carefully theatralized: each actor taking place in the chosen space for the ceremony has a specific role to play following a choreography determined in advance. The arrangement of the participants and the choice of the performed gestures seem to depend closely on the composition of the assembled group and on the meaning attributed to the rite. The purpose would be to reflect and, at the same time, to cement the organization of the communities by assigning to everyone the role adapted to its status. The Homeric descriptions would therefore offer a discourse enlightening the realities of the Iron Age, and in particular the massive diffusion of the rite of bones cremation, in the VIIIth century BC, in the Aegean Greek world. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |