Lycurgan Athens and the making of classical tragedy /

"Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during...

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Λεπτομέρειες βιβλιογραφικής εγγραφής
Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hanink, Johanna, 1982- (συγγραφέας)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Σειρά:Cambridge classical studies
Θέματα:
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction: through the Lycurgan looking glass
  • Part I. Classical Tragedy and the Lycurgan Programme:
  • 1. Civic poetry in Lycurgus' Against Leocrates
  • 2. Scripts and statues, or a law of Lycurgus' own
  • 3. Site of change, site of memory: the 'Lycurgan' Theatre of Dionysus
  • Part II. Reading the Theatrical Heritage:
  • 4. Courtroom drama: Aeschines and Demosthenes; 5. Classical tragedy and its comic lovers
  • 6. Aristotle and the theatre of Athens
  • Epilogue: classical tragedy in the age of Macedon.