Initiating Dionysus - Ritual and Theatre in Aristophanes'' Frogs

Zusatztext This book assembles many qualities. It commands attention by its scientific rigor ... based on a courageous multidiciplinary analysis, on an impressingly wide range of literary and cultural approaches and a series of cultural and above all religious considerations that have never before been used to clarify the text of the frogs. Klappentext This book offers a fresh and challenging multi-disciplinary interpretation of Aristophanes' Frogs. Drawing on a wide range of literary and anthropological approaches, it seeks to explore how membership of Greek fifth-century society would have shaped one's understanding of the play, and, more specifically, of Dionysus as a dramatic figure. Zusammenfassung This book offers a fresh and challenging multi-disciplinary interpretation of Aristophanes' Frogs. Drawing on a wide range of literary and anthropological approaches, it seeks to explore how membership of Greek fifth-century society would have shaped one's understanding of the play, and, more specifically, of Dionysus as a dramatic figure.

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• Authors: Ismeme Lada-Richards, Ismene Lada-Richards, Ismene (Lecturer Lada-Richards, Lada-Richards Ismene
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1998
• EAN: 9780198149811
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814981-1
• No. of pages: 412
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, RELIGION / Ancient, RELIGION / Devotional, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient religions & mythologies, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, Ancient religions and Mythologies