Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World /
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...
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2022.
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