Beyond the fifth century : interactions with Greek tragedy from the fourth century BCE to the Middle Ages / edited by Ingo Gildenhard and Martin Revermann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gildenhard, Ingo, 1970-

Revermann, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Appreciation--History.

Classical literature--Greek influences.

Classical literature.

Literature, Medieval--Greek influences.

Literature, Medieval.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Beyond the 5th century

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Beyond the Fifth Century brings together 13 scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Ancient History, Mediaeval Studies) to explore interactions with Greek tragedy from the 4th century BCE up to the Middle Ages. The volume breaks new ground in several ways. Its chronological scope encompasses periods that are not usually part of research on tragedy reception, especially the Hellenistic period, late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume also considers not just performance reception but various other modes of reception, between different literary genres and media (inscriptions, vase paintings, recording technology). There is a pervasive interest in interactions between tragedy and society-at-large, such as festival culture and entertainment (both public and private), education, religious practice, even life-style. Finally, the volume features studies of a comparative nature which focus less on genealogical connections (although such may be present) but rather on the study of equivalences.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction / Gildenhard, Ingo / Revermann, Martin

A. Getting the Show on the Road

The Classical Tragedians, from Athenian Idols to Wandering Poets / Hanink, Johanna

Situating the Gaze of the Recipient(s): Theatre-Related Vase Paintings and their Contexts of Reception / Revermann, Martin

Changing Contexts: Tragedy in the Civic and Cultural Life of Hellenistic City-States / Ceccarelli, Paola

B. From Greece to Rome

Buskins & SPQR: Roman Receptions of Greek Tragedy / Gildenhard, Ingo

Dionysiac Theme and Dramatic Allusion in Ovid's Metamorphoses 4 / Keith, Alison

"I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here": The Reception of Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovids's Exile Poetry / Ingleheart, Jennifer

C. The Roman Empire

Drama and Epic Narrative: The Test Case of Messenger Speech in Seneca's Agamemnon / Baertschi, Annette M.

Seneca and Pantomime / Zanobi, Alessandra

A Sophist's Drama: Lucian and Classical Tragedy / Schmitz, Thomas

D. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Christians and the Theater / Barnes, Timothy

The Tragedy of the Middle Ages / Symes, Carol

Adventures in Recording Technology: The Drama-as-Performance in the Greek East / White, Andrew

Whipping Jesus Devoutly: The Dramaturgy of Catharsis and the Christian Idea of Tragic Form / Pietropaolo, Domenico

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612722950

9781282722958

1282722956

9783110223781

3110223783

OCLC:

664680970