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 a...

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