<P> This experimental description of a research problem has been developed at the Philologisches
Seminar, University Tuebingen.
<BR>
<P>We try to research on the correlation between <I>ritual song </I>
and <I>ritual action</I>. At the same time we wish to learn about the possibilities offered to scientific communication in the field of Classics and Humanities by electronic media:
How are scientific problems and informations to be organized and
represented in order to enable a discussion?
<P> The main thesis:
<BR>- there is a connection between <I>ritual song</I> and <I>ritual action</I>
<BR>- the transformation of ritual into oracle and song takes place in
a defined and predictable way.
<P>Our starting point are the <I>Secular Games</I> held in Rome
in the year 17 BC. They appear in different media: protocol <I>(acta
saecularia)</I>, Sibylline oracle (in Greek), and song - Horace's
carmen saeculare. In each medium the object - the secular games - appears sligthly different. The task is:
<BR>a) reconstruction of the ritual (3 days, 3 nights);
<BR>b) to describe the relation of rites (symbolic actions) and word (preces);
<BR>c) to define the exact position of Horace's carmen at the end of the ritual and to explain the meaning of this position.
<P> We invite everybody to comment and critizise.
For further instruction and illustration of the possible
relations between word and action we hope especially
for examples derived from other cultures.
<P>Please contact via e-mail <ADDRESS><A HREF="mailto:hubert.cancik@uni-tuebingen.de"> hubert.cancik@uni-tuebingen.de</ADDRESS>
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