Performance, iconography, reception : studies in honour of Oliver Taplin / edited by Martin Revermann and Peter Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taplin, Oliver.

Revermann, Martin

Wilson, Peter, 1964-

Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral interpretation of poetry.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Greek drama.

Theater--Greece.

Theater.

Greece.

Genre:

Epic poetry, Greek.

Physical Description:

xvi, 583 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Summary:

The editors of Performance, Iconography, Reception have assembled twenty-three papers from an international group of scholars who engage with, and develop, the seminal work of Oliver Taplin. For over three decades Oliver Taplin has been at the forefront of innovation in the study of Greek literature, and of the Greek theatre, tragic and comic, in particular. The studies in this volume centre on three key areas: the performance of Greek literature; the interactions between literature and the visual realm of iconography; and the reception and appropriation of Greek literature, and of Greek culture more widely, in subsequent historical periods.

Contents:

Generic boundaries in late fifth-century Athens / Helene P. Foley

Audience and emotion in the reception of Greek drama / Ian Ruffell

Greek middlebrow drama (something to do with Aphrodite?) / Mark Griffith

Costing the Dionysia / Peter Wilson

Nothing to do with Demeter? something to do with Sicily! : theatre and society in the early fifth-century West / Barbara Kowalzig

The Odyssey as performance poetry / Oswyn Murray

Performance and rivalry : Homer, Odysseus, and Hesiod / Adrian Kelly

Performing the will of Zeus : the [actual symbol not reproducible] and the scope of early Greek epic / William Allan

Theatrical Furies : thoughts on Eumenides / Pat Easterling

Aeschylus' Eumenides, chronotopes, and the 'aetiological mode' / Martin Revermann

Star choruses : Eleusis, Orphism, and new musical imagery and dance / Eric Csapo

The last word : ritual, power, and performance in Euripides' Hiketides / Athena Kavoulaki

Intimate relations : children, childbearing, and parentage on the Euripidean stage / Froma I. Zeitlin

Character and characterization in Greek tragedy / Bernd Seidensticker

Scenes at the door in Aristophanic comedy / Peter Brown

The poetics of the mask in old comedy / David Wiles

Putting performance into focus / Robin Osborne

The Greek gem : a token of recognition / Alfonso Moreno

Image and representation in the pottery of Magna Graecia / François Lissarrague

Wagner's Greeks : the politics of Hellenism / Simon Goldhill

Resurrecting ancient Greece in Nazi Germany : the Oresteia as part of the Olympic Games in 1936 / Erika Fischer-Lichte

Can the Odyssey ever be tragic? : historical perspectives on the theatrical realization of Greek epic / Edith Hall

An Oedipus for our times? : Yeats's version of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos / Fiona Macintosh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.

ISBN:

9780199232215

0199232210

OCLC:

231163892

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