Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context / edited by John J. Winkler and Froma I. Zeitlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zeitlin, Froma I.

Winkler, John J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dionysus (Greek deity).

Dionysus.

Genre:

Warschau (1994)

Kongress -- Warschau -- 1994.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1992.

Summary:

These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically stratified community, whose delegates handled all details from the seating arrangements to the qualifications of choral competitors. The growing complexity of these performances may have provoked the Athenian saying "nothing to do with Dionysos" implying that theater had lost its exclusive focus on its patron. This collection considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies. The contributors, in addition to the editors, include Simon Goldhill, Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Franois Lissarrague, Oddone Longo, Nicole Loraux, Josiah Ober, Ruth Padel, James Redfield, Niall W. Slater, Barry Strauss, and Jesper Svenbro.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Introduction

The Theater of the Polis

The Ephebes' Song: Tragoidia and Polis

Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama

The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology

Thebes: Theater of Self and Society in Athenian Drama

Kreousa the Autochthon: A Study of Euripides' Ion

An Anthropology of Euripides' Kyklōps

Why Satyrs Are Good to Represent

Drama, Political Rhetoric, and the Discourse of Athenian Democracy

The Dēmos and the Comic Competition

Drama and Community: Aristophanes and Some of His Rivals

Making Space Speak

The "Interior" Voice: On the Invention of Silent Reading

The Idea of the Actor

Notes on Contributors

Index of Passages Discussed

General Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691215891

0691215898

OCLC:

1227050119