A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama, Paperback / softback Book

A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama Paperback / softback

Part of the Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature series

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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-dramaSurveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on 'lost' playwrightsExamines 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 dramaIncludes single-page synopses of every surviving ancient Greek play

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