Beyond the Fifth Century: Interactions with Greek Tragedy from the Fourth Century BCE to the Middle Ages
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 periods that are not usually part of research on tragedy reception, especially the Hellenistic period, late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume also considers not just performance reception but various other modes of reception, between different literary genres and media (inscriptions, vase paintings, recording technology). There is a pervasive interest in interactions between tragedy and society-at-large, such as festival culture and entertainment (both public and private), education, religious practice, even life-style. Finally, the volume features studies of a comparative nature which focus less on genealogical connections (although such may be present) but rather on the study of equivalences.

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Beyond the Fifth Century: Interactions with Greek Tragedy from the Fourth Century BCE to the Middle Ages
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 periods that are not usually part of research on tragedy reception, especially the Hellenistic period, late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume also considers not just performance reception but various other modes of reception, between different literary genres and media (inscriptions, vase paintings, recording technology). There is a pervasive interest in interactions between tragedy and society-at-large, such as festival culture and entertainment (both public and private), education, religious practice, even life-style. Finally, the volume features studies of a comparative nature which focus less on genealogical connections (although such may be present) but rather on the study of equivalences.

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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

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

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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 periods that are not usually part of research on tragedy reception, especially the Hellenistic period, late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume also considers not just performance reception but various other modes of reception, between different literary genres and media (inscriptions, vase paintings, recording technology). There is a pervasive interest in interactions between tragedy and society-at-large, such as festival culture and entertainment (both public and private), education, religious practice, even life-style. Finally, the volume features studies of a comparative nature which focus less on genealogical connections (although such may be present) but rather on the study of equivalences.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110223774
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 07/16/2010
Pages: 449
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Ingo Gildenhard, Durham University, UK; Martin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction Ingo Gildenhard Martin Revermann 1

A Getting the Show on the Road

The Classical Tragedians, from Athenian Idols to Wandering Poets Johanna Hanink 39

Situating the Gaze of the Recipient(s): Theatre-Related Vase Paintings and their Contexts of Reception Martin Revermann 69

Changing Contexts: Tragedy in the Civic and Cultural Life of Hellenistic City-States Paola Ceccarelli 99

B From Greece to Rome

Buskins & SPQR: Roman Receptions of Greek Tragedy Ingo Gildenhard 153

Dionysiac Theme and Dramatic Allusion in Ovid's Metamorphoses 4 Alison Keith 187

"I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here": the Reception of Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovid's Exile Poetry Jennifer Ingleheart 219

C The Roman Empire

Drama and Epic Narrative: The Test Case of Messenger Speech in Seneca's Agamemnon Annette M. Baertschi 249

Seneca and Pantomime Alessandra Zanobi 269

A Sophist's Drama: Lucian and Classical Tragedy Thomas Schmitz 289

D Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Christians and the Theater Timothy Barnes 315

The Tragedy of the Middle Ages Carol Symes 335

Adventures in Recording Technology: The Drama-as-Performance in the Greek East Andrew White 371

Whipping Jesus Devoutly: The Dramaturgy of Catharsis and the Christian Idea of Tragic Form Domenico Pietropaolo 397

List of Contributors 425

Index 429

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