Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century: A Survey from Ca. 400 BC to Ca. Ad 400

ISBN-13: 9781009069830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 429 str.

Vayos Liapis; Antonis K. Petrides

Opis

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview.

Recenzje

'The book as a whole is amply documented and makes a valuable addition to the now burgeoning study of 'postclassical' tragic theatre.' Martin Cropp, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

Introduction Antonis K. Petrides; Part I. Texts: 1. Greek tragedy in the fourth century: the fragments Vayos Liapis and Theodoros K. Stephanopoulos; 2. The Rhesus Almut Fries; 3. Hellenistic tragedy and satyr-drama: Lycophron's Alexandra Simon Hornblower; 4. The Exagōgē of Ezekiel the tragedian Pierluigi Lanfranchi; Part II. Contexts and Developments: 5. Beyond Athens: the expansion of Greek tragedy from the fourth century onwards Brigitte Le Guen; 6. Theater performance after the fifth century Anne Duncan and Vayos Liapis; 7. Music and dance in tragedy after the fifth century Mark Griffith; 8. The fifth century and after: (dis)continuities in Greek tragedy Francis Dunn; 9. Society and politics in post-fifth century tragedy David M. Carter; Part III. Transmission and Reception: 10. Attitudes towards tragedy from the second sophistic to late antiquity Ruth Webb; 11. Scholars and scholarship on tragedy Johanna Hanink.