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Informationen zum Autor Ian C. Storey is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Trent University, Canada. The author of Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy (2003), Euripides' Suppliant Women (2008), and The Fragments of Old Comedy (2011), he has published numerous papers on Euripides, Old Comedy, and the fiction of C. S. Lewis. Arlene Allan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Otago University, New Zealand, where she teaches ancient Greek literature and mythology, as well as ancient Greek and Latin. Klappentext This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC.* Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama - tragedy, comedy, and satyr-drama* Surveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on 'lost' playwrights* Examines contextual issues such as the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theater; drama's relationship with the worship of Dionysos; political dimensions of drama; and how to read and watch Greek drama* Includes single-page synopses of every surviving ancient Greek play Zusammenfassung This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface xList of Figures xiiList of Maps xiiiAbbreviations and Signs xiv1 Aspects of Ancient Greek Drama 1Drama 1The Dramatic Festivals 14Drama and Dionysos 24The Theatrical Space 34The Performance 46Drama and the Polis 612 Greek Tragedy 72On the Nature of Greek Tragedy 77Aeschylus 93Sophokles 111Euripides 131The Other Tragedians 1513 The Satyr-Play 1564 Greek Comedy 169Origins 169Old Comedy 173The Generations of Old Comedy 195Aristophanes 208Middle Comedy 217Menander and New Comedy 2215 Approaching Greek Drama 230Textual Criticism and Commentary 230New Criticism 231Structuralism 232Myth and "Version" 233Ritual and Drama 235Psychoanalytic Approaches 236Gender Studies 237Performance Criticism 2386 Play Synopses 241Aeschylus' Persians (Persae, Persai ) 243Aeschylus' Seven (Seven against Thebes) 244Aeschylus' Suppliants (Suppliant Women, Hiketides) 245Aeschylus' Oresteia 246Aeschylus' Agamemnon 247Aeschylus' Libation-Bearers (Choephoroe) 248Aeschylus' Eumenides (Furies) 249Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus Desmotes) 250Sophokles' Ajax (Aias) 251Sophokles' Antigone 252Sophokles' Trachinian Women (Trachiniai, Women of Trachis) 253Sophokles' Oedipus Tyrannos (King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King) 254Sophokles' Elektra (Electra) 255Sophokles' Philoktetes (Philoctetes) 256Sophokles' Oedipus at Kolonos (Colonus) 257Euripides' Alkestis (Alcestis) 258Euripides' Medea 259Euripides' Children of Herakles (Heraclidae, Herakleidai ) 260Euripides' Hippolytos 261Euripides' Andromache 262Euripides' Hecuba (Hekabe) 263Euripides' Suppliant Women (Suppliants, Hiketides) 264Euripides' Elektra (Electra) 265Euripides' Herakles (Hercules Furens, The Madness of Herakles) 266Euripides' Trojan Women (Troades) 267Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians (Iphigeneia in Tauris) 268Euripides' Ion 269Euripides' Helen 270Euripides' Phoenician Women (Phoinissai ) 271Euripides' Orestes 272Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis 273Euripides' Bacchae (Bacchants) 274Euripides' Cyclops 275[Euripides'] Rhesos 276Aristophanes' Acharnians 277Aristophanes' Knights (Hippeis, Equites, Horsemen) 278Aristophanes' Wasps (Sphekes, Vespae) 279Aristophanes' Peace (Pax, Eirene) 280Aristophanes' Clouds (Nubes, Nephelai) 281Aristophanes' Birds (Ornithes, A...
