Poet and Orator

A Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-11-073689-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 454 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 766 g

Reihe: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

This multiauthored volume, as well as bringing into clearer focus the notion of drama and oratory as important media of public inquiry and critique, aims to generate significant attention to the unified intentions of the dramatist and the orator to establish favourable conditions of internal stability in democratic Athens. We hope that readers both enjoy and find valuable their engagement with these ideas and beliefs regarding the indissoluble bond between oratorical expertise and dramatic artistry. This exciting collection of studies by worldwide acclaimed classicists and acute younger Hellenists is envisaged as part of the general effort, almost unanimously acknowledged as valid and productive, to explore the impact of formalized speech in particular and craftsmanship rhetoric in general upon Attic drama as a moral and educational force in the Athenian city-state. Both poet and orator seek to deepen the central tensions of their work and to enlarge the main themes of their texts to even broader terms by investing in the art of rhetoric, whilst at the same time, through a skillful handling of events, evaluating the past and establishing standards or ideology.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Classics, Theatre Studies, and Communication Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Volonaki, Eleni

Markantonatos, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Markantonatos and Eleni Volonaki, University of the Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece.