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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taplin, Oliver, honouree.

Revermann, Martin, editor.

Wilson, Peter, 1964- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral interpretation of poetry.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Greek drama.

Theater--Greece.

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (600 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of papers from an international group of scholars who engage with the seminal work of Oliver Taplin, one of the world's leading classicists.

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:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03660-8

1-281-99872-9

9786611998721

0-19-155250-X

OCLC:

318632742