Nothing to Do with Dionysos? : : Athenian Drama in Its Social Context / / ed. by Froma I. Zeitlin, John J. Winkler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Goldhill, Simon,; Henderson, Jeffrey,; Konstan, David,; Lissarrague, Franqois,; Longo, Oddone,; Loraux, Nicole,; Ober, Josiah,; Padel, Ruth,; Redfield, James,; Slater, Niall W.,; Strauss, Barry,; Svenbro, Jesper,; Winkler, John J.,; Zeitlin, Froma I.,
• HerausgeberIn: Winkler, John J.,; Zeitlin, Froma I.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)

These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically stratified community, whose delegates handled all details from the seating arrangements to the qualifications of choral competitors. The growing complexity of these performances may have provoked the Athenian saying "nothing to do with Dionysos" implying that theater had lost its exclusive focus on its patron. This collection considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies. The contributors, in addition to the editors, include Simon Goldhill, Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Franois Lissarrague, Oddone Longo, Nicole Loraux, Josiah Ober, Ruth Padel, James Redfield, Niall W. Slater, Barry Strauss, and Jesper Svenbro.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Theater of the Polis -- The Ephebes' Song: Tragoidia and Polis -- Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama -- The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology -- Thebes: Theater of Self and Society in Athenian Drama -- Kreousa the Autochthon: A Study of Euripides' Ion -- An Anthropology of Euripides' Kyklōps -- Why Satyrs Are Good to Represent -- Drama, Political Rhetoric, and the Discourse of Athenian Democracy -- The Dēmos and the Comic Competition -- Drama and Community: Aristophanes and Some of His Rivals -- Making Space Speak -- The "Interior" Voice: On the Invention of Silent Reading -- The Idea of the Actor -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Passages Discussed -- General Index