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Marcus Folch

Stanford University
Department of Classics

Marcus Folch is a doctoral student in the department of Classics.  He received his B.A. in the Classics from Cornell University.  He is currently writing his dissertation, which examines choral performance in Athens of the fourth century B.C.E. 

Project Summary

Folch’s dissertation examines the history and theory of khoreia — the performance of poetry and dance, usually in a religious or state-sponsored festival, by a chorus in front of a critical audience — in Athens of the fourth century B.C.E.  He argues that citizen status was created and enforced through participation — as actor, spectator, judge, patron, or poet — in choral performance, and thus that participation in khoreia constituted a form of political agency.