Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World /

Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World / / ed. by Eric Csapo, Hans Rupprecht Goette, J. Richard Green, Brigitte Le Guen, Elodie Paillard, Jelle Stoop, Peter Wilson.

Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Athanassaki, Lucia,
Bowie, Ewen,
Cowan, Robert,
Csapo, Eric,
Garelli, Marie-Hélène,
Green, J. Richard,
Le Guen, Brigitte,
Lisle, Christopher de,
Paillard, Elodie,
Perris, Simon,
Rupprecht Goette, Hans,
Skotheim, Mali,
Touyz, Paul,
Wilson, Peter,
HerausgeberIn:
Csapo, Eric,
Goette, Hans Rupprecht,
Green, J. Richard,
Le Guen, Brigitte ,
Paillard, Elodie ,
Stoop, Jelle,
Wilson, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Theatre and Autocracy: A Paradox for Theatre History
  • Part I: Theatre and Greek Autocrats
  • 1 Greek Theatre and Autocracy in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries
  • 2 Artists of Dionysus and Ptolemaic Rulers in Egypt and Cyprus
  • 3 The Autocratic Theatre of Hieron II
  • 4 Autocratic Rulers and Hellenistic Satyrplay
  • Part II: Theatre and Roman Autocrats
  • 5 Greek Theatre in Roman Italy: From Elite to Autocratic Performances
  • 6 Drama and Power in Rome from Augustus to Marcus Aurelius (First-Second Centuries AD)
  • 7 Augustan Policy Towards the Greek Dramatic Festivals
  • 8 Theatres and Autocracy in the Roman Period: An Example in Microcosm
  • 9 The Portraits of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Menander in Roman Contexts: Evidence of the Reception of the Theatre Classics in Late Republican and Imperial Rome
  • 10 Theatre and Autocracy in the Greek World of the High Roman Empire
  • Part III: Representations of Autocrats and Oligarchs in Drama
  • 11 Charms of Autocracy, Charms of Democracy: Euripides’ Athenian Leaders in the Light of Civic Iconography
  • 12 Oligarchs in Greek Tragedy
  • 13 Fault on Both Sides: Constructive Destruction in Varius’ Thyestes
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index locorum
  • List of Contributors

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