'At over seven hundred pages, this tome is rich with sources and ideas … The basic idea that a chorus has a complex materiality is powerful. Scholars will find here a trove of useful ideas and associations about that materiality.' Daniel Anderson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Choreia at the Forge: Tripod Cauldrons, Golden Maidens and the Choral Dancers on Achilles' Shield in Iliad 18; 2. From the Demonic to the Divine: Gorgons, Cauldrons and Choral Dance; 3. Flying with the Birds: Avian Choreia and Bird Choruses in Art and Text; 4. The Carnival of the Animals: Dancing in Herds; 5. Water Music: Nymphs, Ships and Choral Aquatics; 6. A Chorus of Columns: Pindar's Agalmata and the Architectural Chorus; 7. Choral Fabrications: Weaving, Cloth-Making and Choral Song and Dance; 8. Choreography: Choreia and Alphabetic Writing; 9. Girls in Lines: Catalogues and Choruses; 10. Choral Envisioning: Archaic and Early Classical Choral Lyric and Post-classical Accounts of Enargeia; Bibliography; Index.