Beschreibung:
Lucia Prauscello is University Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. She has published on Greek philology, literature and music. Her monograph Singing Alexandria: Music between Practice and Textual Transmission was published in 2006.
A study of the ethical underpinning of the rhetoric of citizenship in Plato's Laws and its implementation through ritualized forms of performance.
Introduction; Preliminaries; Part I. Performing Ordinary Virtue in Plato's Utopias: Citizenship, Desire and Intention: 1. Citizenship in Callipolis; 2. Citizenship in Magnesia; Part II. Citizenship and Performance in the Laws: 3. Choral performances, persuasion and pleasure; 4. Patterns of chorality in Magnesia; 5. Comedy and comic discourse in Magnesia; 6. Epilogue: on law, agency and motivation.