Lycurgan Athens and the making of classical tragedy /
"Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Cambridge classical studies.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: through the Lycurgan looking glass
- Part I. Classical tragedy and the Lycurgan programme. 1. Civic poetry in Lycurgus' Against Leocrates ; 2. Scripts and statues, or a law of Lycurgus' own ; 3. Site of change, site of memory: the 'Lycurgan' Theatre of Dionysus
- Part II. Reading the theatrical heritage. 4. Courtroom drama: Aeschines and Demosthenes ; 5. Classical tragedy and its comic lovers ; 6. Aristotle and the theatre of Athens
- Epilogue: classical tragedy in the age of Macedon.
