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Dramatic music --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Musique de scène --- Tragédie grecque --- History and criticism --- Appreciation --- Histoire et critique --- Appréciation --- Musique de scène --- Tragédie grecque --- Appréciation --- Foreign countries --- Germany --- 19th century

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"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 the 'Lycurgan Era' (338-322 BC), a number of measures were taken in Athens to affirm to the Greek world that the achievement of tragedy was owed to the unique character of the city. By means of rhetoric, architecture, inscriptions, statues, archives and even legislation, the 'classical' tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides) and their plays came to be presented as both the products and vital embodiments of an idealised Athenian past. This study marks the first account of Athens' invention of its own theatrical heritage and sheds new light upon the interaction between the city's literary and political history"--

Classical Greek literature --- Drama --- Athens --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Literature and society --- Tragédie grecque --- Littérature et société --- History and criticism. --- Historiography --- Histoire et critique --- Historiographie --- Lycurgus, --- Greece --- Athens (Greece) --- Grèce --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Civilization --- History. --- Civilisation --- Histoire --- Tragedy. --- Licurgue --- History --- Ancient --- General. --- Tragédie grecque --- Littérature et société --- Grèce --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Lycurgue, --- Lykourgos,

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Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry. The traditional view of fourth-century culture is encouraged and sustained by the absence of dramatic texts in anything more than fragments. Until recently, little attention was paid to an enormous array of non-literary evidence attesting, not only the sustained vibrancy of theatrical culture, but a huge expansion of theatre throughout (and even beyond) the Greek world. Epigraphic, historiographic, iconographic and archaeological evidence indicates that the fourth century BC was an age of exponential growth in theatre. It saw: the construction of permanent stone theatres across and beyond the Mediterranean world; the addition of theatrical events to existing festivals; the creation of entirely new contexts for drama; and vast investment, both public and private, in all areas of what was rapidly becoming a major 'industry'. This is the first book to explore all the evidence for fourth century ancient theatre: its architecture, drama, dissemination, staging, reception, politics, social impact, finance and memorialisation.

Theaters --- Architecture, Greek --- Sculpture, Greek --- Pottery, Greek --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Théâtres --- Architecture grecque --- Sculpture grecque --- Céramique grecque --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Greece --- Grèce --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Theater --- Greek drama --- History --- History and criticism --- 4e siècle av. J.-C. --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) grec --- Théâtres antiques --- Tragédie grecque --- Comédie grecque --- Antiquités grecques --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism. --- Antiquities. --- E-books --- Théâtres --- Céramique grecque --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Grèce --- Antiquités --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- 4e siècle av. J.-C. --- Théâtre (genre littéraire) grec --- Théâtres antiques --- Tragédie grecque --- Comédie grecque --- Antiquités grecques --- Theater - Greece - History - To 500 - Congresses --- Theater - Greece - Athens - History - To 500 - Congresses --- Theater - Greece - History - Congresses --- Greek drama - History and criticism - Congresses --- Greece - Antiquities - Congresses --- Greece. --- Theatre. --- antiquity. --- drama.