Off-stage groups in Athenian drama / Alexandra Hardwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardwick, Alexandra, author.

Series:

Oxford classical monographs.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford classical monographs

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama--Greece--Athens--History and criticism.

Greek drama.

Offstage action (Drama).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama' analyses how off-stage groups in fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy influence and respond to events on stage, and how characters interact with these groups. Alexandra Hardwick argues that Athenian drama engages with early ideas of group psychology, providing ways to explore collective emotion.

Contents:

Intro

Series page

Title page

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

0.1. Introducing Off-Stage Groups

0.2. Existing Scholarship on Off-Stage Groups

0.3. Methodology and Related Scholarship

0.4. Defining Groups

0.5. Division of Material

0.6. Book Outline

1. Motifs of Group Psychology in Classical Greek Prose

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Groups as Psychological Units

1.3. Groups' Decision-Making Abilities

1.4. How Groups Are Controlled

1.5. Group Communication and Noise

1.6. Conclusions

2. Collective Political Decision-Making in Tragedy

2.1. Debating Democracy: Euripides' Suppliants

2.2. 'The Thoroughly-Persuaded Dêmos'? Aeschylus' Suppliants

2.3. The Hostile Dêmos: Orestes

2.4. Conclusions

3. Collective Political Decision-Making in Aristophanes

3.1. The Off-Stage Bouleˆ in Knights

3.2. Dêmos on Stage in Knights

3.3. Individual and Collective in Assembly-Women

3.4. Chorus as Collective in Birds

3.5. Conclusions

4. Off-Stage Populations

4.1. Misreading the Population: Antigone

4.2. Using the Population: Oedipus at Colonus

4.3. The Watching Population: Oedipus Tyrannus

4.4. Impotent Populations in Aeschylus

4.5. Conclusions

5. 'Political' Armies in Tragedy

5.1. Fear and the Army in IA

5.2. Women and the Army in IA

5.3. Armed Politics in IA

5.4. IA: Conclusions

5.5. Armies as Powerful Off-Stage Presences

5.6. Armies as Poleis

5.7. Conclusions

6. Female Groups

6.1. 'The Women's Deˆmos': Thesmophoriazusae

6.2. 'Like Artemisia': Lysistrata

6.3. 'Best of the Trojan Women': Hecuba

6.4. 'Battle with the Maenads': Bacchae

6.5. Conclusions

7. Conclusions

7.1. What Connects Off-Stage Groups?

7.2. Depicting Communities: Off-Stage Groups and Choruses.

7.3. Re-arranging Source Material: Temporal and Author-Specific Patterns

Bibliography

Index Locorum

General Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 11, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-199463-4

0-19-888723-X

0-19-888724-8

OCLC:

1417087371