Tragedy and Athenian Religion

Klappentext Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexamination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion. Based on a reconstruction of the context in which tragedy was generated as a ritual performance during the festival of the City Dionysia, Sourvinou-Inwood shows that religious exploration had been crucial in the emergence of what developed into fifth-century Greek tragedy. Zusammenfassung A radical re-examination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion. Based on a reconstruction of the context in which tragedy was generated as a ritual performance! it shows that religious exploration was crucial in the emergence of what developed into fifth-century Greek tragedy.

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• Authors: Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2003
• EAN: 9780739103999
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0399-9
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina; Greek Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies