A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama - Couverture souple

Storey, Ian C.; Allan, Arlene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1118455126 ISBN 13 : 9781118455128

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1118455126
• ISBN 13: 9781118455128
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible