Achilles
Acting
Aeschylus
Allusion
Ambiguity
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek comedy
Anecdote
Apollo
Aristophanes
Athenian Democracy
Cadmus
Caricature
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Classical Athens
Criticism
Demagogue
Demosthenes
Dionysia
Dionysus
Dithyramb
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Euripides
G. (novel)
Genre
Greece
Greek tragedy
Herodotus
Homer
Hoplite
Hydria
Iconography
Ideology
Institution
Jean-Pierre Vernant
Krater
Law court (ancient Athens)
Lenaia
Literature
Lysistrata
Maenad
Medea
Misfortune (folk tale)
N. (novella)
Odysseus
Old Comedy
Oreste
Parabasis
Parody
Parthenos (mythology)
Pentheus
Philoctetes
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetry
Protagonist
Rhetoric
S. (Dorst novel)
Seven Against Thebes
Socrates
Sophist
Sophocles
Stagecraft
The Bacchae
The Other Hand
The Various
Theatre of ancient Greece
Thebes
Thersites
Thucydides
Tiresias
Tragedy
Trojan War
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691015255
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 1992
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically stratified community, whose delegates handled all details from the seating arrangements to the qualifications of choral competitors. The growing complexity of these performances may have provoked the Athenian saying "nothing to do with Dionysos" implying that theater had lost its exclusive focus on its patron. This collection considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies. The contributors, in addition to the editors, include Simon Goldhill, Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Franois Lissarrague, Oddone Longo, Nicole Loraux, Josiah Ober, Ruth Padel, James Redfield, Niall W. Slater, Barry Strauss, and Jesper Svenbro.
