Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century Bce - Presence and Representation

List of contents

• Frontmatter


• List of Figures


• Abbreviations, Citations, and Transliteration


• 0: Introduction


• 1: The Material Circumstances


• 1.1: When and Where Did the Choruses of Drama Dance?


• 1.2: Choral Performers


• 1.3: Training and Preparation


• 2: The Chorus in New Tragedy


• 2.1: The Rhesus


• 2.2: The Chorus in the Fragments of Fourth-Century Tragedy


• 2.3: Lyric Poetry in the Fourth Century


• 3: The Chorus in 'Old' Tragedy


• 3.1: Iphigenia at Aulis


• 3.2: Seven Against Thebes


• 4: The Chorus in Comedy


• 4.1: Assemblywomen


• 4.2: Wealth


• 4.3: The Chorus in Menander and the Fragments


• 5: An Interlude: Absence, ¿¿¿¿*u~ , and the Aristotelian Embolima


• 6: Chorus and Festival


• 6.1: The Festival Chorus


• 6.2: Chorus and Choregia


• 7: The Chorus and Society


• 7.1: Xenophon's Choruses


• 7.2: Plato's Choruses


• 7.3: The Chorus in the Fourth-Century Imagination


• 8: Conclusions


• Endmatter


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Lucy Jackson is a Assistant Professor in Classics (Greek Literature) at Durham University. Her research interests focus on ancient Greek and Roman theatre and performance, neo-Latin translations of Greek drama and the reception of classical theatre in the sixteenth century, and translation studies and theory in the ancient and modern worlds.

Summary

This first comprehensive study of the ancient Greek dramatic chorus in the fourth century reassesses the traditional narrative that it more or less 'declined' in quantity and quality, demonstrating instead how varied and vital this component of drama continued to be during a time when the theatre became truly international.

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This study overwhelmingly demonstrates that the chorus remained central to Athenian cultural life in this period, and I found myself wondering about how and to what extent a kind of 'choral logic' also subtended Athenian ideas about democracy, identity, political membership, etc. Anyone interested in pursuing those sorts of questions—or simply in the history of ancient Greek theater and performance—will be well rewarded for time spent with this book.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy C. M. M. Jackson, Lucy C. M. M. (Assistant Professor in Cla Jackson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2019
• EAN: 9780198844532
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884453-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Literary studies: plays and playwrights