Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century A Survey From Ca. 400 Bc to Ca. Ad 400

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview.

About the author

Vayos Liapis is Professor of Ancient Theatre and its Reception at the Open University of Cyprus. His latest book is A Commentary on the 'Rhesus' Attributed to Euripides (2011). He is currently co-editing Adapting Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, forthcoming).Antonis K. Petrides is Associate Professor of Classics at the Open University of Cyprus. He is the author of Menander, New Comedy and the Visual (Cambridge, 2014) and the co-editor of New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy (2010). He is currently preparing a new critical edition and commentary on Menander's Dyskolos.

Summary

Accessible survey exploring, for the first time in English, both textual and non-textual evidence for the development of Greek tragedy after the fifth century BC. Ranges widely across topics from theatre performance, music and dance to transmission and reception later in antiquity. Essential for classicists and theatre scholars and practitioners.

Product details

• Assisted by: Vayos Liapis (Editor), Antonis K. Petrides (Editor), Petrides Antonis K. (Editor), Liapis Vayos (Editor)
• Authors: Vayos Liapis, Vayos Petrides Liapis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.11.2018
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781107038554
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03855-4
• Pages: 428
• Subjects: History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, CE period up to c 1500, Theatre Studies, Archaeology, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, History and Archaeology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Literary studies: plays and playwrights