Download or read book Singing for the Gods written by Barbara Kowalzig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-12-13 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to an old question - the relationship between myth and ritual. Barbara Kowalzig shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early 5th century BC, helped to effect social and political change in their own time.