Theatre world : critical perspectives on Greek tragedy and comedy : studies in honour of Professor Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos / edited by Andreas Fountoulakis, Andreas Markantonatos and Georgios Vasilaros.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fountoulakis, Andreas, 1969- editor.

Markantonatos, Andreas, editor.

Vasilaros, Geōrgios, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 45.

Trends in classics - supplementary volumes ; volume 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama--History and criticism.

Greek drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 373 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH , [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume includes contributions from a team of international experts who address topics lying at the forefront of current research on Greek drama and classical reception studies. Combining a wide range of theoretical perspectives with close readings of specific texts, the essays of this volume shed new light on issues pertinent to the genetic identity of Greek drama, its associations with other genres and its reception in various eras. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Tragedy and Comedy

Cult, Lyric and Komos: The Origins of Tragedy and Comedy, Once Again / Francisco Rodríguez Adrados Adrados, Francisco Rodríguez 3

Philanthropic Gods in Comedy and Tragedy / Alan H. Sommerstein Sommerstein, Alan H. 15

The People in Aeschylus' Tragedies / Suzanne Saïd Saïd, Suzanne 33

Staging Allegory / Chris Carey Carey, Chris 49

Trygodia - Remarks on the Poetics of Aristophanic Comedy / Bernhard Zimmermann Zimmermann, Bernhard 65

When Dionysus Goes to the East: On the Dissemination of Greek Drama beyond Athens / Andreas Fountoulakis Fountoulakis, Andreas 75

II Individual Plays

Klytaimnestra in the Odyssey and Aeschylus' Agamemnon / Franco Montanari Montanari, Franco 121

Sophocles' Ajax and his Homeric Prototypes / Justina Gregory Gregory, Justina 137

The Prosopon Fallacy or, Apollo in Sophocles' Electra / Francis Dunn Dunn, Francis 157

Failing with Intent: A Narratological Note on the 'False Merchant Scene' in Sophocles' Phitoctetes / Andreas Markantonatos Markantonatos, Andreas 171

Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Euripides' Electro (367-390) and the Poetics of the Play / Ioannis N. Perysinakis Perysinakis, Ioannis N. 181

Narrative and Rhetorical Experimentation in Euripides' Late Iphigenia at Aulis / Milagros Quijada Sagredo Sagredo, Milagros Quijada 213

III Reception

A Note on Demosthenes (19.246-250) and the Reception of Sophocles' Antigone / Paul Demont Demont, Paul 235

Tragedy in Antiphon 1, Against the Stepmother / Michael Edwards Edwards, Michael 243

Euripides' Erechtheus in Lykourgos' Against Leokrates / Eleni Volonaki Volonaki, Eleni 251

Upon the king! / André Hurst Hurst, André 269

The Lemnian Deeds: A Tragic Episode in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius / Georgios Vasilaros Vasilaros, Georgios 277

Tristan and Isolde and Classical Myth / John Davidson Davidson, John 295

IV Theatre and Music

The Role of Music in Plato's Symposium / Evangelos Moutsopoulos Moutsopoulos, Evangelos 313

Aristotle on Music and Theatre (Politics VIII 6. 1340 b 20-1342 b 34; Poetics) / Egert Poehlmann Poehlmann, Egert 317.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 21, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110519785

311051978X

Publisher Number:

40027651778

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