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Claude Calame
Summary
Claude Calame (born in Lausanne 1943) is a Swiss writer on Greek mythology and the structure of mythic narrative from the perspective of a Hellenist trained in semiotics and ethnology (ethnopoetics) as well as philology. He was a professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne and is now Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris. He taught also at the Universities of Urbino and Siena in Italy, and at Yale University in the US.
Among his works, several have been translated into English.
Les Chœurs de jeunes filles en Grèce archaïque, 2 vols. (Rome: L'Ateneo and Bizzarri), 1977. Tr. as Choruses of Ancient Women in Greece: their morphology, religious roles and social functions (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield), 1996, 3d ed.: 2019 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres) In Spartan feminine liturgies Calame detected initiative scenarios in rites of passage interpreted as survivals of archaic "tribal' initiations.
The Craft of Poetic Speech in Ancient Greece (Ithaca NY - London: Cornell University Press), 1995.
I Greci e l'eros (Rome), 1992; tr. as L'Éros dans la Grèce antique, (Paris: Belin), 1996 and The Poetics of Eros in Ancient Greece (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 1999.
Thésée et l'imaginaire athénien, (Lausanne:Payot "Sciences humaines"),1991, 3d ed. 2018 (Paris: La Découverte), examines the emergence of a complex new interpretation of archaic traditional materials in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE: "his analysis brings to light how ritual and institutional elaboration accompany the emergence of a national heroic mythology" observed Philippe Borgeaud in an extended review of the revised edition .
Mythe et histoire dans l'antiquité grecque: la création symbolique d'une colonie (Lausanne: Payot), 1996, 2nd ed.: 2011 (Paris: Les Belles Lettres). Tr. as Myth and history in ancient Greece: the symbolic creation of a colony, 2003
Philippe Borgeaud, Claude Calame and André Hurst, "L’Orphisme et ses écritures.
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