Claude Calame
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Claude Calame (born in
Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...
1943) is a Swiss writer on
Greek mythology A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and nature of the world, the lives and activities o ...
and the
structure A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such a ...
of mythic narrative from the perspective of a Hellenist trained in
semiotics Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the systematic study of sign processes ( semiosis) and meaning making. Semiosis is any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, where a sign is defined as anything that communicates something ...
and
ethnology Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology). ...
(ethnopoetics) as well as
philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...
. He was a professor of
Greek language Greek ( el, label= Modern Greek, Ελληνικά, Elliniká, ; grc, Ἑλληνική, Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Italy ( Calabria and Salento), souther ...
and literature at the
University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (UNIL; french: links=no, Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second oldest in Switzer ...
and is now Director of Studies at the
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate '' grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. Th ...
, 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 .Borgeaud in ''History of Religions'' (41.1 ugust 2001:81-84 sketched Calame's developed methodological position for an Anglophone readership. *''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. Nouvelles recherches", ''Revue de l'histoire des religions'' 4/2002 *''Masks of Authority: Fiction and Pragmatics in Ancient Greek Poetics'', Ithaca NY - London (Cornell University Press, "Myth and Poetics Series"), 2005, collects articles first published between 1986 and 1997. *''Greek Mythology. Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction'', Cambridge (Cambridge University Press) 2009 *''Prométhée généticien. Profits techniques et usages de métaphores'', Paris (Les Belles Lettres – « Encre marine ») 2010 *''Mythe et histoire dans l’Antiquité grecque. La création symbolique d'une colonie'', Paris (Les Belles Lettres) 2011 (2e éd.) *''Qu’est-ce que la mythologie grecque?'', Paris (Gallimard) 2015 *''Avenir de l’homme et urgence climatique. Au-delà de l’opposition nature/culture'', Paris (Lignes) 2015 *''La tragédie chorale. Poésie grecque et rituel musical'', Paris (Les Belles Lettres) 2017 Collections *''Rito e poesia corale in Grecia. Guida storica e critica'', Roma – Bari (Laterza) 1977, 234 pp. *''L'amore in Grecia'', Roma – Bari (Laterza) 1983, XL + 310 pp. (quatre éditions) *''Métamorphoses du mythe en Grèce antique'', Genève (Labor & Fides) 1988, 231 pp. *''Le Discours anthropologique. Description, narration, savoir'', Paris (Méridiens Klincksieck) 1990, 306 pp. (2è éd.: Lausanne, Payot, 1995), avec Jean-Michel Adam, Marie-Jeanne Borel et Mondher Kilani *''Figures grecques de l'intermédiaire'', Lausanne –Paris (Études de Lettres– Belles Lettres) 1992, 146 pp. *''Philosophes et historiens anciens face aux mythes'', Lausanne – Paris (Études de Lettres – Belles Lettres) 1998, 154 pp., avec David Bouvier *''La Fabrication de l'humain dans les cultures et en anthropologie'', Lausanne (Payot – Études de Lettres) 1999, 168 pp., avec Mondher Kilani *''Figures de l’humain. Les représentations de l’anthropologie'', Paris (Éditions de l’EHESS) 2003 360 pp., avec Francis Affergan, Silvana Borutti, Ugo Fabietti, Mondher Kilani, Francesco Remotti (trad. it. : Roma, Meltemi, 2005) *''Identités d’auteur dans l’Antiquité et la tradition européenne'', Grenoble (Millon) 2004, 198 pp., avec Roger Chartier *''Poétique d’Aristophane et langue d’Euripide en dialogue'', Lausanne – Paris (Études de Lettres – Belles Lettres) 2004, 142 pp. *''Comparer les comparatismes. Perspectives sur l’histoire et les sciences des religions'', Paris – Milan (Arche – Edidit) 2005, 242 pp., avec Maya Burger *''Identités de l’individu contemporain'', Paris (Textuel) 2008, 160 pp. *''Le capitalisme contre les individus. Repères altermondialistes'', Paris (Textuel – ATTAC) 2010, 142 pp. *''Comparer en histoire des religions antiques. Controverses et propositions'', Liège (Presses Universitaires de Liège) 2012, 146 pp., avec Bruce Lincoln *''Du récit au rituel par la forme esthétique. Poèmes, images et pragmatique cultuelle en Grèce ancienne'', Paris (Les Belles Lettres) 2017, 342 pp., avec Pierre Ellinger *''Migrations forcées, discriminations et exclusions. Les enjeux de politiques néocoloniales'', Vulaines s/ Seine (Editions du Croquant) 2020, 232 pp.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Calame, Claude Anthropologists of religion Scholars of Greek mythology and religion Mythographers Structuralists Academic staff of the University of Lausanne Hellenists Academic staff of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences People from Lausanne Living people 1943 births