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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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
2022.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Theatre and Autocracy: A Paradox for Theatre History
- Part I: Theatre and Greek Autocrats
- 1 Greek Theatre and Autocracy in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries
- 2 Artists of Dionysus and Ptolemaic Rulers in Egypt and Cyprus
- 3 The Autocratic Theatre of Hieron II
- 4 Autocratic Rulers and Hellenistic Satyrplay
- Part II: Theatre and Roman Autocrats
- 5 Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances
- 6 Drama and Power in Rome from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (First-Second Centuries AD)
- 7 Augustan Policy Towards the Greek Dramatic Festivals
- 8 Theatres and Autocracy in the Roman Period: An Example in Microcosm
- 9 The Portraits of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Menander in Roman Contexts: Evidence of the Reception of the Theatre Classics in Late Republican and Imperial Rome
- 10 Theatre and Autocracy in the Greek World of the High Roman Empire
- Part III: Representations of Autocrats and Oligarchs in Drama
- 11 Charms of Autocracy, Charms of Democracy: Euripides' Athenian Leaders in the Light of Civic Iconography
- 12 Oligarchs in Greek Tragedy
- 13 Fault on Both Sides: Constructive Destruction in Varius' Thyestes
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index locorum
- List of Contributors.
