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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145553903321

Autore

Storey Ian Christopher <1946->

Titolo

A guide to ancient Greek drama [[electronic resource] /] / Ian C. Storey and Arlene Allan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2005

ISBN

1-78268-836-6

1-281-21424-8

9786611214241

0-470-79440-2

0-470-77620-X

1-4051-3763-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Blackwell guides to classical literature

Altri autori (Persone)

AllanArlene

Disciplina

882.009

882.0109

882/.0109

Soggetti

Greek drama - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-304) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama; Contents; Preface; List of Figures; List of Maps; Abbreviations and Signs; 1 Aspects of Ancient Greek Drama; Drama; The Dramatic Festivals; Drama and Dionysos; The Theatrical Space; The Performance; Drama and the Polis; 2 Greek Tragedy; On the Nature of Greek Tragedy; Aeschylus; Sophokles; Euripides; The Other Tragedians; 3 The Satyr-Play; 4 Greek Comedy; Origins; Old Comedy; The Generations of Old Comedy; Aristophanes; Middle Comedy; Menander and New Comedy; 5 Approaching Greek Drama; Textual Criticism and Commentary; New Criticism; Structuralism

Myth and "Version"Ritual and Drama; Psychoanalytic Approaches; Gender Studies; Performance Criticism; 6 Play Synopses; Aeschylus' Persians (Persae, Persai); Aeschylus' Seven (Seven against Thebes); Aeschylus' Suppliants (Suppliant Women, Hiketides); Aeschylus' Oresteia; Aeschylus' Agamemnon; Aeschylus' Libation-Bearers (Choephoroe); Aeschylus' Eumenides (Furies); Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus Desmotes); Sophokles' Ajax



(Aias); Sophokles' Antigone; Sophokles' Trachinian Women (Trachiniai, Women of Trachis)

Sophokles' Oedipus Tyrannos (King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King)Sophokles' Elektra (Electra); Sophokles' Philoktetes (Philoctetes); Sophokles' Oedipus at Kolonos (Colonus); Euripides' Alkestis (Alcestis); Euripides' Medea; Euripides' Children of Herakles (Heraclidae, Herakleidai); Euripides' Hippolytos; Euripides' Andromache; Euripides' Hecuba (Hekabe); Euripides' Suppliant Women (Suppliants, Hiketides); Euripides' Elektra (Electra); Euripides' Herakles (Hercules Furens, The Madness of Herakles); Euripides' Trojan Women (Troades)

Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians (Iphigeneia in Tauris)Euripides' Ion; Euripides' Helen; Euripides' Phoenician Women (Phoinissai); Euripides' Orestes; Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis; Euripides' Bacchae (Bacchants); Euripides' Cyclops; [Euripides'] Rhesos; Aristophanes' Acharnians; Aristophanes' Knights (Hippeis, Equites, Horsemen); Aristophanes' Wasps (Sphekes, Vespae); Aristophanes' Peace (Pax, Eirene); Aristophanes' Clouds (Nubes, Nephelai); Aristophanes' Birds (Ornithes, Aves); Aristophanes' Lysistrate; Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria (Thesmophoriazousai)

Aristophanes' Frogs (Ranae, Batrachoi)Aristophanes' Assembly-Women (Ekklesiazousai); Aristophanes' Wealth (Ploutos); Menander's The Grouch (Old Cantankerous, Dyskolos); Menander's Samian Woman (Samia) or Marriage-contract; A Note on Meter; Glossary of Names and Terms; Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This Blackwell Guide introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century BC to the third century BC.A broad-ranging and systematically organised introduction to ancient Greek drama. Discusses all three genres of Greek drama - tragedy, comedy, and satyr play. Provides overviews of the five surviving playwrights - Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and brief entries on lost playwrights. Covers contextual issues such as: the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and