Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World /

• Other Authors: Csapo, Eric (επιμελητής)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022.
• Subjects: Θέατρο > Ελλάδα > Ιστορία > Μέχρι το 1500; Θέατρο > Πολιτικές απόψεις > Ελλάδα.; Θέατρο > Ιστορία > Μέχρι το 1500. > Ρώμη; Θέατρο > Πολιτικές απόψεις > Ρώμη.

Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre - rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy - serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate...