Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century -

Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century

A Survey from ca. 400 BC to ca. AD 400
Buch | Softcover
429 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-06983-0 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
Accessible survey exploring, for the first time in English, both textual and non-textual evidence for the development of Greek tragedy after the fifth century BC. Ranges widely across topics from theatre performance, music and dance to transmission and reception later in antiquity. Essential for classicists and theatre scholars and practitioners.
Did Greek tragedy die along with Euripides? This accessible survey demonstrates that this is far from being the case. In it, thirteen eminent specialists offer, for the first time in English, broad coverage of a little-studied but essential part of the history of Greek tragedy. The book contains in-depth discussions of all available textual evidence (including inscriptions and papyri), but also provides historical perspectives on every aspect of the post-fifth-century history of tragedy. Oft-neglected plays, such as Rhesus, Alexandra, and Exagōgē (the only surviving Biblical tragedy), are studied alongside such topics as the expansion of Greek tragedy beyond Athens, theatre performance, music and dance, society and politics, as well as the reception of Greek tragedy in the Second Sophistic and in Late Antiquity, and the importance of ancient scholarship in the transmission of Greek tragic texts.

Vayos Liapis is Professor of Ancient Theatre and its Reception at the Open University of Cyprus. His latest book is A Commentary on the 'Rhesus' Attributed to Euripides (2011). He is currently co-editing Adapting Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, forthcoming). Antonis K. Petrides is Associate Professor of Classics at the Open University of Cyprus. He is the author of Menander, New Comedy and the Visual (Cambridge, 2014) and the co-editor of New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy (2010). He is currently preparing a new critical edition and commentary on Menander's Dyskolos.

Introduction Antonis K. Petrides; Part I. Texts: 1. Greek tragedy in the fourth century: the fragments Vayos Liapis and Theodoros K. Stephanopoulos; 2. The Rhesus Almut Fries; 3. Hellenistic tragedy and satyr-drama: Lycophron's Alexandra Simon Hornblower; 4. The Exagōgē of Ezekiel the tragedian Pierluigi Lanfranchi; Part II. Contexts and Developments: 5. Beyond Athens: the expansion of Greek tragedy from the fourth century onwards Brigitte Le Guen; 6. Theater performance after the fifth century Anne Duncan and Vayos Liapis; 7. Music and dance in tragedy after the fifth century Mark Griffith; 8. The fifth century and after: (dis)continuities in Greek tragedy Francis Dunn; 9. Society and politics in post-fifth century tragedy David M. Carter; Part III. Transmission and Reception: 10. Attitudes towards tragedy from the second sophistic to late antiquity Ruth Webb; 11. Scholars and scholarship on tragedy Johanna Hanink.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 3 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Gewicht 628 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-009-06983-7 / 1009069837
ISBN-13 978-1-009-06983-0 / 9781009069830
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