Page and Stage

Intersections of Text and Performance in Ancient Greek Drama
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-11-221537-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 297 g

Reihe: ISSN

Our knowledge of the ancient theatre is limited by the textual and iconographic character of the evidence available to us: we cannot watch or otherwise experience an Athenian tragedy or comedy. These essays, by a distinguished group of international scholars, bridge the gap between the surviving literary and iconographic evidence and the realities of performance on the ancient Greek stage. This ambitious goal is reached by means of a detailed examination of several case-studies: the construction of dramatic space in Sophocles’ ; the significance of the use of deictic pronouns in Sophocles’ ; the theatrical and religious dynamics of the appearance of divine figures on stage; the relationship between the victory celebrations at the end of Aristophanic comedies and their counterparts in the after-performance real world; the investigation of nude or semi-nude female characters in Aristophanes; the staging of and the opening scene of ; the meditation on the metapoetics of the use of props in 5th-century comedy; the relationship between performance context and text through a close reading of a number of Aristophanic fragments; the way the on imagine and use questions of staging practice; and the potential Aeschylean authorship of some of stage-direction traceable in Aeschylus’ and .

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students in Classical Philology, ancient Greek trage

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olson, Stuart Douglas

Totaro, Piero

Taplin, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

S. Douglas Olson, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Relligions and Cultures, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Oliver Taplin, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Piero Totaro, Dipartimento di Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.