Beyond the Fifth Century : : Interactions with Greek Tragedy from the Fourth Century BCE to the Middle Ages /

Beyond the Fifth Century : : Interactions with Greek Tragedy from the Fourth Century BCE to the Middle Ages / / ed. by Ingo Gildenhard, Martin Revermann.

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Beyond the Fifth Century brings together 13 scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Ancient History, Mediaeval Studies) to explore interactions with Greek tragedy from the 4th century BCE up to the Middle Ages. The volume breaks new ground in several ways. Its chronological scope encompasses pe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Baertschi, Annette M.,
Barnes, Timothy,
Ceccarelli, Paola,
Gildenhard, Ingo,
Hanink, Johanna,
Ingleheart, Jennifer,
Keith, Alison,
Pietropaolo, Domenico,
Revermann, Martin,
Schmitz, Thomas,
Symes, Carol,
White, Andrew,
Zanobi, Alessandra,
HerausgeberIn:
Gildenhard, Ingo,
Revermann, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (441 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • A. Getting the Show on the Road
  • The Classical Tragedians, from Athenian Idols to Wandering Poets
  • Situating the Gaze of the Recipient(s): Theatre-Related Vase Paintings and their Contexts of Reception
  • Changing Contexts: Tragedy in the Civic and Cultural Life of Hellenistic City-States
  • B. From Greece to Rome
  • Buskins & SPQR: Roman Receptions of Greek Tragedy
  • Dionysiac Theme and Dramatic Allusion in Ovid’s Metamorphoses 4
  • “I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here”: The Reception of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovids’s Exile Poetry
  • C. The Roman Empire
  • Drama and Epic Narrative: The Test Case of Messenger Speech in Seneca’s Agamemnon
  • Seneca and Pantomime
  • A Sophist’s Drama: Lucian and Classical Tragedy
  • D. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • Christians and the Theater
  • The Tragedy of the Middle Ages
  • Adventures in Recording Technology: The Drama-as-Performance in the Greek East
  • Whipping Jesus Devoutly: The Dramaturgy of Catharsis and the Christian Idea of Tragic Form
  • Backmatter

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