Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC /

Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC / / ed. by Eric Csapo, Hans Rupprecht Goette, J. Richard Green, Peter Wilson.

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Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry. The traditional view of fourth-century...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Biles, Zachary,
Braund, David,
Csapo, Eric,
Goette, Hans Rupprecht,
Green, J. Richard,
Guen, Brigitte Le,
Hall, Edith,
Hanink, Johanna,
Hartwig, Andrew,
Liapis, Vayos,
Millis, Benjamin W.,
Moloney, Eoghan,
Moretti, Jean-Charles,
Nervegna, Sebastiana,
Papastamati-von Moock, Christina,
Robinson, Edward G. D.,
Taplin, Oliver,
Thorn, Jed,
Wilson, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Csapo, Eric,
Goette, Hans Rupprecht,
Green, J. Richard,
Wilson, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (578 p.) :; diverse Abb.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations and Conventions
  • Introduction: Old and New Perspectives on Fourth-Century Theatre
  • Section A: Theatre Sites
  • The Theatre of Dionysus Eleuthereus in Athens: New Data and Observations on its ‘Lycurgan’ Phase
  • The Archaeology of the ‘Rural’ Dionysia in Attica
  • The Evolution of Theatre Architecture Outside Athens in the Fourth Century
  • Section B: Tragedy and Comedy
  • How Pots and Papyri Might Prompt a Re-Evaluation of Fourth-Century Tragedy
  • Performing Classics: The Tragic Canon in the Fourth Century and Beyond
  • Literary Evidence for New Tragic Production: The View from the Fourth Century
  • The Evolution of Comedy in the Fourth Century
  • Section C: Performance outside Athens
  • Philippus in acie tutior quam in theatro fuit … (Curtius 9, 6, 25): The Macedonian Kings and Greek Theatre
  • Theatre, Religion, and Politics at Alexander’s Travelling Royal Court
  • Cooking Up Rhesus: Literary Imitation and Its Consumers
  • Rethinking Choregic Iconography in Apulia
  • Greek Theatre in Non-Greek Apulia
  • Regional Theatre in the Fourth Century. The Evidence of Comic Figurines of Boeotia, Corinth and Cyprus
  • Theatre in the Fourth-Century Black Sea Region
  • Section D: Finance and Records in Athens
  • The Finance and Organisation of the Athenian Theatre in the Time of Eubulus and Lycurgus
  • Inscribed Public Records of the Dramatic Contests at Athens: IG II2 2318–2323a and IG II2 2325
  • Plates
  • Illustration Credit
  • Bibliography
  • Indices
  • List of Contributors

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