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Drama, Philosophy, Politics in Ancient Greece. Contexts and Receptions (eBook)

Author : Montserrat Reig & Xavier Riu
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN 13 : 8447537951
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Drama, Philosophy, Politics in Ancient Greece. Contexts and Receptions (eBook) written by Montserrat Reig & Xavier Riu and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is focused mainly, though not exclusively, on ancient Greek drama. It aims at examining the integration of various kinds of texts in the society and the whole body of discourses of their time, as well as in the previous and later tradition. Each chapter analyses one particular case of such integrations and is a sample of the new ways to explore the relationship between texts and literary genres. On the whole the book shows why we need to find more complex ways to describe the relationship between texts and genres in ancient Greece, and to refine the distinction between the various periods of ancient Greek culture. ; Aquest llibre se centra principalment però no en exclusiva en el teatre grec antic, per tal d’examinar com s’insereixen determinats textos en la societat i en el conjunt dels discursos del seu temps, així com en la tradició anterior i posterior. Cada capítol analitza un cas d’aquestes diverses insercions i és una mostra de les noves maneres d’enfocar la relació entre textos i gèneres literaris. En conjunt el llibre explica per què avui dia necessitem dibuixar un quadre molt més complex de les relacions entre els gèneres i afinar la distinció entre els diversos períodes de la història de la cultura grega.

Drama, Philosophy, Politics in Ancient Greece. Contexts and Receptions

Author : Montserrat Reig & Xavier Riu
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN 13 : 8447537684
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Drama, Philosophy, Politics in Ancient Greece. Contexts and Receptions written by Montserrat Reig & Xavier Riu and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is focused mainly, though not exclusively, on ancient Greek drama. It aims at examining the integration of various kinds of texts in the society and the whole body of discourses of their time, as well as in the previous and later tradition. Each chapter analyses one particular case of such integrations and is a sample of the new ways to explore the relationship between texts and literary genres. On the whole the book shows why we need to find more complex ways to describe the relationship between texts and genres in ancient Greece, and to refine the distinction between the various periods of ancient Greek culture. ; Aquest llibre se centra principalment però no en exclusiva en el teatre grec antic, per tal d’examinar com s’insereixen determinats textos en la societat i en el conjunt dels discursos del seu temps, així com en la tradició anterior i posterior. Cada capítol analitza un cas d’aquestes diverses insercions i és una mostra de les noves maneres d’enfocar la relació entre textos i gèneres literaris. En conjunt el llibre explica per què avui dia necessitem dibuixar un quadre molt més complex de les relacions entre els gèneres i afinar la distinció entre els diversos períodes de la història de la cultura grega.

Choral Tragedy

Author : Claude Calame
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516253
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Choral Tragedy written by Claude Calame and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Greek tragedy was fundamentally choral and deeply connected to the cultic and ritual contexts of its performance.

Mythical Narratives in Stesichorus

Author : Sofia Carvalho
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110715880
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Mythical Narratives in Stesichorus written by Sofia Carvalho and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythical narratives of Stesichorus provide the earliest surviving examples of poetic production in the Greek West. This book illustrates how Stesichorus reshaped Greek epic to create a remarkably innovative type of lyric poetry – a literature that was particularly expressive in its handling of motifs associated with travel, such as the voyages of heroes, their returns home, and their escapes. This comprehensive survey of Stesichorus’ treatment of myth discusses his engagement with Homer and Hesiod, his powerful and often moving means of characterisation, his subtle treatment of narrative, and his elaboration of emotional episodes unprecedented in archaic Greek lyric poetry. All Greek is translated, making the book accessible to anyone with an interest in one of the great poets of archaic Greece, whose work had such an impact on the later genre of tragedy.

Laughter on the Fringes

Author : Anna Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190697105
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Laughter on the Fringes written by Anna Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a genre defined by and repudiated for its aggressive humor. Worthy of further consideration, however, is the degree to which both approaches, and particularly the latter one that relegated Old Comedy to the fringes of the literary canon, led authors to engage with the ironic and self-reflexive humor of Aristophanes, Eupolis and Cratinus. Authors ranging from serious moralizers (Plutarch and Aelius Aristides) to comic writers in their own right (Lucian, Alciphron) to other figures not often associated with Old Comedy (Libanius) adopted aspects of the genre to negotiate power struggles, facilitate literary and sophistic rivalries, and as a model for autobiographical writing. To varying degrees, these writers wove recognizable features of the genre (e.g. the parabasis, its agonistic language, the stage biographies of the individual poets) into their writings. The image of Old Comedy that emerges from this time is that of a genre in transition. It was, on the one hand, with the exception of Aristophanes' extant plays, on the verge of being almost completely lost; on the other hand, its reputation and several of its most characteristic elements were being renegotiated and reinvented.

Wisdom and Folly in Euripides

Author : Poulheria Kyriakou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110453142
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom and Folly in Euripides written by Poulheria Kyriakou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major, defining polarity in Euripidean drama, wisdom and folly, has never so far been the subject of a book-length study. The volume aims at filling this gap. Virtually all Euripidean characters, from gods to slaves, are subject to some aspect of folly and claim at least some measure of wisdom. The playwright’s sophisticated handling of the tradition and the pervasive ambiguity in his work add extra layers of complexity. Wisdom and folly become inextricably intertwined, as gods pursue their agendas and mortal characters struggle to control their destiny, deal with their troubles, confront their past, and chart their future. Their amoral or immoral behavior and various limitations often affect also their families and communities. Leading international scholars discuss wisdom and folly from various thematic angles and theoretical perspectives. A final section deals with the polarity’s reception in vase-painting and literature. The result is a wealth of fresh insights into moral, social and historical issues. The volume is of interest to students and scholars of classical drama and its reception, of philosophy, and of rhetoric

Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147258886X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Book Synopsis Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire by : C. W. Marshall

Download or read book Athenian Comedy in the Roman Empire written by C. W. Marshall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian comedy is firmly entrenched in the classical canon, but imperial authors debated, dissected and redirected comic texts, plots and language of Aristophanes, Menander, and their rivals in ways that reflect the non-Athenocentric, pan-Mediterranean performance culture of the imperial era. Although the reception of tragedy beyond its own contemporary era has been studied, the legacy of Athenian comedy in the Roman world is less well understood. This volume offers the first expansive treatment of the reception of Athenian comedy in the Roman Empire. These engaged and engaging studies examine the lasting impact of classical Athenian comic drama. Demonstrating a variety of methodologies and scholarly perspectives, sources discussed include papyri, mosaics, stage history, epigraphy and a broad range of literature such as dramatic works in Latin and Greek, including verse satire, essays, and epistolary fiction.

Herodotus and the Presocratics

Author : K. Scarlett Kingsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009338528
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Herodotus and the Presocratics written by K. Scarlett Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herodotus' Histories was composed well before the genre of Greek historiography emerged as a distinct narrative enterprise. This book explores it within its fifth-century context alongside the extant fragments of Presocratic treatises as well as philosophizing tragedy and comedy. It argues for the Histories' competitive engagement with contemporary intellectual culture and demonstrates its ambition as an experimental prose work, tracing its responses to key debates on relativism, human nature, and epistemology. In addition to expanding the intellectual milieu of which the Histories is a part and restoring its place in Presocratic thought, K. Scarlett Kingsley elucidates fourth-century philosophy's subsequent engagement with the work. In doing so, she contributes to a revision of the sharp separation between the ancient genres of philosophy and history. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900442461X
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography offers the first comprehensive introduction and scholarly guide to the cultural practice and literary genre of letter-writing in the Byzantine Empire.

Adapting Greek Tragedy

Author : Vayos Liapis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107155703
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Adapting Greek Tragedy written by Vayos Liapis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how contemporary adaptations, on the stage and on the page, can breathe new life into Greek tragedy.

The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought

Author : University of Edinburgh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198748477
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought by : University of Edinburgh

Download or read book The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought written by University of Edinburgh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Hellenistic period (c.323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens and the political thought which it produced. However, while Athenian civic life and thought in the Classical period have been intensively studied, these aspects of the Hellenistic period have so far received much less attention. This volume seeks to bring together the two areas of research, shedding new light on these complementary parts of the history of the ancient Greek polis. The essays collected here encompass historical, philosophical, and literary approaches to the various Hellenistic responses to and adaptations of Classical Athenian politics. They survey the complex processes through which Athenian democratic ideals of equality, freedom, and civic virtue were emphasized, challenged, blunted, or reshaped in different Hellenistic contexts and genres. They also consider the reception, in the changed political circumstances, of Classical Athenian non- and anti-democratic political thought. This makes it possible to investigate how competing Classical Athenian ideas about the value or shortcomings of democracy and civic community continued to echo through new political debates in Hellenistic cities and schools. Looking ahead to the Roman Imperial period, the volume also explores to what extent those who idealized Classical Athens as a symbol of cultural and intellectual excellence drew on, or forgot, its legacy of democracy and vigorous political debate. By addressing these different questions it not only tracks changes in practices and conceptions of politics and the city in the Hellenistic world, but also examines developing approaches to culture, rhetoric, history, ethics, and philosophy, and especially their relationships with politics.

Theorising Performance

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0715638262
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Theorising Performance written by Edith Hall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

Author : Betine van Zyl Smit
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118347773
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama by : Betine van Zyl Smit

Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama written by Betine van Zyl Smit and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film

Agenorid Myth in the ›Bibliotheca‹ of Pseudo-Apollodorus

Author : Johanna Astrid Michels
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110610523
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Agenorid Myth in the ›Bibliotheca‹ of Pseudo-Apollodorus written by Johanna Astrid Michels and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, perhaps the best-known mythographic text, stands out for its comprehensive aim and state of preservation. The handbook has regularly been disregarded as a repository of 'standard' myths or as a primary witness to archaic stories, a reductive view at once underestimating and romanticizing the merits of the Bibliotheca. This monograph unlocks the Bibliotheca as a literary work in its own right by offering the first systematic commentary on an essential selection, the Cretan and Theban myths in Bibl. III.1-56, and by presenting an in-depth analysis of the text. In so doing, this volume closes a gap in current research, from which a philological commentary is entirely missing. The main part of the study focuses on various aspects of composition and organization by addressing structuring principles, narratorial interventions, and the author's method and sources. It lays to rest persistent misconceptions about the representative character of the Bibliotheca's myths, the author's merits, and his source use, all of which have divided the scholarship to this date. In addition, it provides an update on the author, date, purpose and readership, text history, and book division of the Bibliotheca.

Nothing to Do with Dionysos?

Author : John J. Winkler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215898
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Nothing to Do with Dionysos? written by John J. Winkler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Companion to Aeschylus

Author : Jacques A. Bromberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119072409
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Aeschylus written by Jacques A. Bromberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examination—the first comprehensive one in English—of the works of the earliest surviving Greek tragedian. This book explores Aeschylean drama, and its theatrical, historical, philosophical, religious, and socio-political contexts, as well as the receptions and influence of Aeschylus from antiquity to the present day. This companion offers readers thorough examinations of Aeschylus as a product of his time, including his place in the early years of the Athenian democracy and his immediate and ongoing impact on tragedy. It also provides comprehensive explorations of all the surviving plays, including Prometheus Bound, which many scholars have concluded is not by Aeschylus. A Companion to Aeschylus is an ideal resource for students encountering the work of Aeschylus for the first time as well as more advanced scholars seeking incisive treatment of his individual works, their cultural context and their enduring significance. Written in an accessible format, with the Greek translated into English and technical terminology avoided as much as possible, the book belongs in the library of anyone looking for a fresh and authoritative account of works of continuing interest and importance to readers and theatre-goers alike.

Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts

Author : Athanasios Efstathiou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110479796
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts written by Athanasios Efstathiou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collective volume provides a fresh perspective on Homeric reception through a methodologically focused, interdisciplinary investigation of the transformations of Homeric epic within varying generic and cultural contexts. It explores how various aspects of Homeric poetics appeal and can be mapped on to a diversity of contexts under different socio-historical, intellectual, literary and artistic conditions. The volume brings together internationally acclaimed scholars and acute young researchers in the fields of classics and reception studies, yielding insight into the varied strategies and ideological forces that define Homeric reception in literature, scholarship and the performing arts (theatre, film and music) and shape the ‘horizon of expectations’ of readers and audience. This collection also showcases that the wide-ranging ‘migration’ of Homeric material through time and across place holds significant cultural power, being instrumental in the construction of new cultural identities. The volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception and cultural studies and the performing arts, as well as to readers fascinated by ancient literature and its cultural transformations.