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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fountoulakis, Andreas, editor.

Markantonatos, Andreas, editor.

Vasilaros, Geōrgios, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 45.

Trends in Classics. Supplementary Volumes, 1868-4785 ; Volume 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama--History and criticism.

Greek drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; London, [England] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collection of essays, published in honour of Professor Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos, addresses topics which lie at the forefront of current research on the fields of Greek drama and classical reception studies. It brings together internationally distinguished scholars who provide fresh insights into issues pertaining to the origins of Greek tragedy and comedy, their generic identity, the structure, the morality or the divine and human characters emerging from individual plays, the presence of Greek drama outside Athens in post-classical times, the associations between drama and genres such as epic and oratory or even the reception of Greek drama in operatic works such as Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Related art forms, such as music, receive particular attention. Focusing on either broader topics or specific texts, the essays of this volume provide a wide range of theoretical perspectives often combining modern critical trends such as reception studies, narratology or cultural studies with close and acute readings of individual passages. The volume is of particular interest to scholars and students of Greek drama and its reception as well as to anyone interested in Greek culture and its various manifestations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface

Cult, Lyric and Komos: The Origins of Tragedy and Comedy, Once Again

Philanthropic Gods in Comedy and Tragedy

The People in Aeschylus’ Tragedies

Staging Allegory

Trygodia – Remarks on the Poetics of Aristophanic Comedy

When Dionysus Goes to the East: On the Dissemination of Greek Drama beyond Athens

Klytaimnestra in the Odyssey and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon

Sophocles’ Ajax and his Homeric Prototypes

The Prosopon Fallacy or, Apollo in Sophocles’ Electra

Failing with Intent: A Narratological Note on the ‘False Merchant Scene’ in Sophocles’ Philoctetes

Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Euripides’ Electra (367–390) and the Poetics of the Play

Narrative and Rhetorical Experimentation in Euripides’ Late Iphigenia at Aulis

A Note on Demosthenes (19.246–250) and the Reception of Sophocles’ Antigone

Tragedy in Antiphon 1, Against the Stepmother

Euripides’ Erechtheus in Lykourgos’ Against Leokrates

Upon the king!

The Lemnian Deeds: A Tragic Episode in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius

Tristan and Isolde and Classical Myth

The Role of Music in Plato’s Symposium

Aristotle on Music and Theatre (Politics VIII 6. 1340 b 20–1342 b 34; Poetics)

Notes on Contributors

Academic Publications of Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos

Index Locorum

General Index

Index of Greek Words

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed November 29, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110518962

3110518961

9783110519785

311051978X

OCLC:

1009180880