A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama PDF
by Ian C. Storey, Arlene Allan
Description
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
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- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:08/11/2013
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- ISBN:9781118455142
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:08/11/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781118455142