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On Germans and other Greeks : tragedy and ethical life
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ISBN: 1282066099 0253108624 9780253108623 0253214432 9780253214430 0253338689 9780253338686 Year: 2001 Publisher: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press,

Le maschere ellenistiche della tragedia greca
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ISBN: 2903189552 2918887544 9782903189556 Year: 1998 Volume: 19 Publisher: Publications du Centre Jean Bérard

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L'idea di questo lavoro nacque più di un decennio addietro quando, studiando la gran massa di piccole terracotte di argomento teatrale rinvenute a Lipari, abbiamo potuto riscontrare la corrispondenza fra i tipi liparesi riferibili alla Commedia nuova e quelli descritti nel catalogo delle maschere della commedia conservatoci dallOnomastikon di Giulio Polluce. Quasi tutti i tipi descritti in questo catalogo potevano essere riconosciuti a Lipari stessa ο nella documentazione integrativa offertaci da altri centri della Sicilia quali Centuripe, Morgantina ecc., ma soprattutto nelle figurazioni musive ο pittoriche di Pompei e di Ercolano. Il ricorrere degli stessi tipi, sempre ben definiti dalle loro caratteristiche individuali, in centri diversi e lontani fra loro dimostrava d'altronde che non si trattava di creazioni estemporanee di artisti locali. È una documentazione che potrebbe ovviamente essere molto ampliata continuando ed estendendo ulteriormente le ricerche. Come già per le maschere della commedia, è infatti lungi da noi l'idea di un corpus delle maschere della tragedia pervenuteci dall'antichità classica. Sicché è sperabile che la raccolta da noi oggi presentata possa presto esse-re arricchita e migliorata ο anche forse parzialmente modificata.


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Choral mediations in Greek tragedy
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ISBN: 9781107033283 9781139519564 1107033284 1107054877 1107055946 1107058171 1107059518 1107065593 1139519565 1139889680 1316613569 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This volume explores how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning. The contributors analyse choruses as fictional, religious and civic performers; as combinations of text, song and dance; and as objects of reflection in themselves, in relation and contrast to the choruses of comedy and melic poetry. Drawing on earlier analyses of the social context of Greek drama, the non-textual dimensions of tragedy, and the relations between dramatic and melic choruses, the chapters explore the uses of various analytic tools in allowing us better to capture the specificity of the tragic chorus. Special attention is given to the physicality of choral dancing, musical interactions between choruses and actors, the trajectories of reception, and the treatment of time and space in the odes.


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Archaic and Classical Choral Song
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ISBN: 1283400316 9786613400314 3110254026 9783110254020 3112190440 3110254018 3110482371 9781283400312 9783110254013 9783110482379 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissemination, and transmission of Greek poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose first performers were a choral group, sometimes singing in a ritual context, sometimes in more secular celebrations of victories in competitive games. It explores the different ways such a group presented itself and was perceived by its audiences; the place of tyrants, of other prominent individuals and of communities in commissioning and funding choral performances and in securing the further circulation of the songs' texts and music; the social and political role of choral songs and the extent to which such songs continued to be performed both inside and outside the immediate family and polis-community, whether chorally or in archaic Greece's important cultural engine, the elite male symposium, with the consequence that Athenian theatre audiences could be expected to appreciate allusion to or reworking of such poetic forms in tragedy and comedy; and how various types of performance contributed to transmission of written texts of the poems until they were collected and edited by Alexandrian scholars in the third and second centuries BC.


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The Julio-Claudian succession : reality and perception of the "Augustan model"
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ISBN: 9789004229037 9789004233430 9004229035 9004233431 1283551179 9786613863621 9789004235847 9789004231917 9004231919 9004235841 1283854333 9781283551175 6613863629 Year: 2013 Volume: 349 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Anonymous characters appear in almost every extant Greek Tragedy, yet they have long been overlooked in critical scholarship. This book argues that the creation and use of anonymous figures is an important tool in the transformation of traditional mythological heroes into unique dramatic characters. Through close reading of the passages in which nameless characters appear, this study demonstrates the significant impact of their speech, actions, and identity on the characterization of the particular named heroes to whom they are attached. Exploring the boundaries between anonymity and naming in mythico-historical drama, the book draws attention to an important but neglected aspect of the genre, suggesting a new perspective from which to read, perform, and appreciate Greek Tragedy.


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Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy
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ISBN: 9781438483375 1438483376 1438483384 9781438483382 Year: 2021 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

Female acts in Greek tragedy
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ISBN: 0691050309 9780691050300 0691094926 1282087479 1282935267 1400814251 1400824737 9786612087479 9786612935268 9781400814251 9781400824731 9780691094922 9780691094922 9781282087477 9781282935266 661293526X 6612087471 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the development of the social, political, and intellectual life in the polis. She investigates three central and problematic areas in which tragic heroines act independently of men: death ritual and lamentation, marriage, and the making of significant ethical choices. Her anthropological approach, together with her literary analysis, allows for an unusually rich context in which to understand gender relations in ancient Greece. This book examines, for example, the tragic response to legislation regulating family life that may have begun as early as the sixth century. It also draws upon contemporary studies of virtue ethics and upon feminist reconsiderations of the Western ethical tradition. Foley maintains that by viewing public issues through the lens of the family, tragedy asks whether public and private morality can operate on the same terms. Moreover, the plays use women to represent significant moral alternatives. Tragedy thus exploits, reinforces, and questions cultural clichés about women and gender in a fashion that resonates with contemporary Athenian social and political issues.

The Play of Space
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ISBN: 1282271369 9786612271366 1400825075 9781400825073 9780691058092 0691058091 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between the world visible to the audience and that evoked by individual tragedies, Rehm argues for an ecology of the ancient theater, one that "nests" fifth-century theatrical space within other significant social, political, and religious spaces of Athens. Drawing on the work of James J. Gibson, Kurt Lewin, and Michel Foucault, Rehm crosses a range of disciplines--classics, theater studies, cognitive psychology, archaeology and architectural history, cultural studies, and performance theory--to analyze the phenomenology of space and its transformations in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. His discussion of Athenian theatrical and spatial practice challenges the contemporary view that space represents a "text" to be read, or constitutes a site of structural dualities (e.g., outside-inside, public-private, nature-culture). Chapters on specific tragedies explore the spatial dynamics of homecoming ("space for returns"); the opposed constraints of exile ("eremetic space" devoid of normal community); the power of bodies in extremis to transform their theatrical environment ("space and the body"); the portrayal of characters on the margin ("space and the other"); and the tragic interactions of space and temporality ("space, time, and memory"). An appendix surveys pre-Socratic thought on space and motion, related ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and, as pertinent, later views on space developed by Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, and Einstein. Eloquently written and with Greek texts deftly translated, this book yields rich new insights into our oldest surviving drama.

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