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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| Μορφή: | Βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Σειρά: | Cambridge classical studies
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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.
