A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama
- ISBN-10
- 1118455126
- ISBN-13
- 9781118455128
- Category
- Drama
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-28
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Authors
- Arlene Allan, Ian C. Storey
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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