A Companion to Greek Tragedy

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John Wiley & Sons, 28 avr. 2008 - 576 pages

The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today.

  • Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars
  • Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of Greek tragedy
  • All ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear
  • Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and a generous and informative combined bibliography
 

Table des matières

Tragedys Teaching
55
Tragedy Rhetoric and Performance Culture
83
Pictures of Tragedy?
103
Myth
121
Lyric
149
Episodes
167
Music
183
Theatrical Production
194
Authority Figures
333
Womens Voices
352
Marginal Figures
366
Text and Transmission
379
Tragedy
394
Greek Tragedy in Rome
413
Italian Reception of Greek Tragedy
428
Nietzsche on Greek Tragedy and the Tragic
444

Aeschylean Tragedy
215
Sophoclean Tragedy
233
Euripidean Tragedy
251
A Survey
271
Tragedy and Anthropology
293
Values
305
The Gods
321
Greek Tragedy and Western Perceptions of Actors
459
The Theater of Innumerable Faces
472
Rendering Ancient
490
Bibliography
505
Index
541
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À propos de l'auteur (2008)

Justina Gregory is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College. Her books include Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians (1991), a commentary on Euripides’ Hecuba (1999), and a translation of Aesop’s Fables (1975).

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