Theatre World : : Critical Perspectives on Greek Tragedy and Comedy. Studies in Honour of Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos / / ed. by Andreas Fountoulakis, Andreas Markantonatos, Georgios Vasilaros.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Adrados, Francisco Rodríguez,; Carey, Chris,; Davidson, John,; Demont, Paul,; Dunn, Francis,; Edwards, Michael,; Fountoulakis, Andreas,; Gregory, Justina,; Hurst, André,; Markantonatos, Andreas,; Montanari, Franco,; Moutsopoulos, Evangelos,; Perysinakis, Ioannis N.,; Poehlmann, Egert,; Sagredo, Milagros Quijada,; Saïd, Suzanne,; Sommerstein, Alan H.,; Vasilaros, Georgios,; Volonaki, Eleni,; Zimmermann, Bernhard,
• HerausgeberIn: Fountoulakis, Andreas,; Markantonatos, Andreas,; Vasilaros, Georgios,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 45
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 375 p.)

This collection of essays, published in honour of Professor Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos, addresses topics which lie at the forefront of current research on the fields of Greek drama and classical reception studies. It brings together internationally distinguished scholars who provide fresh insights...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• I. Tragedy and Comedy
• Cult, Lyric and Komos: The Origins of Tragedy and Comedy, Once Again
• Philanthropic Gods in Comedy and Tragedy
• The People in Aeschylus’ Tragedies
• Staging Allegory
• Trygodia – Remarks on the Poetics of Aristophanic Comedy
• When Dionysus Goes to the East: On the Dissemination of Greek Drama beyond Athens
• II. Individual Plays
• Klytaimnestra in the Odyssey and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
• Sophocles’ Ajax and his Homeric Prototypes
• The Prosopon Fallacy or, Apollo in Sophocles’ Electra
• Failing with Intent: A Narratological Note on the ‘False Merchant Scene’ in Sophocles’ Philoctetes
• Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Euripides’ Electra (367–390) and the Poetics of the Play
• Narrative and Rhetorical Experimentation in Euripides’ Late Iphigenia at Aulis
• III. Reception
• A Note on Demosthenes (19.246–250) and the Reception of Sophocles’ Antigone
• Tragedy in Antiphon 1, Against the Stepmother
• Euripides’ Erechtheus in Lykourgos’ Against Leokrates
• Upon the king!
• The Lemnian Deeds: A Tragic Episode in the Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius
• Tristan and Isolde and Classical Myth
• IV. Theatre and Music
• The Role of Music in Plato’s Symposium
• Aristotle on Music and Theatre (Politics VIII 6. 1340 b 20–1342 b 34; Poetics)
• Notes on Contributors
• Academic Publications of Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos
• Index Locorum
• General Index
• Index of Greek Words