A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama

✍ Scribed by Ian C. Storey, Arlene Allan

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 325
Series: Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This Blackwell Guide introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century BC to the third century BC.

A broad-ranging and systematically organised introduction to ancient Greek drama.

Discusses all three genres of Greek drama – tragedy, comedy, and satyr play.

Provides overviews of the five surviving playwrights – Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and brief entries on lost playwrights.

Covers contextual issues such as: the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theatre; the relationship between drama and the worship of Dionysos; the political dimension; and how to read and watch Greek drama.

Includes 46 one-page synopses of each of the surviving plays.

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