Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy

The first account of how Athens invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy during the later fourth century BC.

List 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.

About the author

Johanna Hanink is Assistant Professor of Classics and Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities at Brown University, Rhode Island, where she is also a member of the Graduate Field Faculty in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. She works primarily on the intellectual and performance cultures of classical Athens and has published widely on Athenian tragedy and its reception in antiquity.

Summary

The Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. This study marks the first account of how Athens constructed its theatrical past and sheds new light upon the interaction between the city's literary and political history.

Product details

• Authors: Johanna Hanink, Johanna (Brown University Hanink, Hanink Johanna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9781107697508
• ISBN: 978-1-107-69750-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology