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

Klappentext What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Antonis K. Petrides; Part I. Texts: 1. Greek tragedy in the fourth century: the fragments Vayos Liapis and Theodoros K. Stephanopoulos; 2. The Rhesus Almut Fries; 3. Hellenistic tragedy and satyr-drama: Lycophron's Alexandra Simon Hornblower; 4. The Exag¿g¿ of Ezekiel the tragedian Pierluigi Lanfranchi; Part II. Contexts and Developments: 5. Beyond Athens: the expansion of Greek tragedy from the fourth century onwards Brigitte Le Guen; 6. Theater performance after the fifth century Anne Duncan and Vayos Liapis; 7. Music and dance in tragedy after the fifth century Mark Griffith; 8. The fifth century and after: (dis)continuities in Greek tragedy Francis Dunn; 9. Society and politics in post-fifth century tragedy David M. Carter; Part III. Transmission and Reception: 10. Attitudes towards tragedy from the second sophistic to late antiquity Ruth Webb; 11. Scholars and scholarship on tragedy Johanna Hanink.

Product details

• Authors: Vayos Petrides Liapis
• Assisted by: Vayos Liapis (Editor), Antonis K. Petrides (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781009069830
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0906983-0
• No. of pages: 429
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet