In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. Tragedy was consistently seen as the most serious of all dramatic genres; these essays trace a sequence of different visions of what the most serious kind of dramatic story might be, and the most appropriate ways of telling those stories on stage.
Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual, and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.
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A definitive overview of the development and history of tragedy in the ancient world.
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Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction, Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
1. Forms and Media, Naomi Weiss (Harvard University, USA)
2. Sites of Performance and Circulation, Rosa D'Andújar (King's College
London, UK)
3. Communities of Production and Consumption, Eirene Visvardi (Wesleyan
University, USA)
4. Philosophy and Social Theory, Austin Busch (College at Brockport, USA)
5. Religion, Ritual and Myth, Isabelle Torrance (Aarhus University, Denmark)
6. Politics of City and Nation, Robert Cowan (University of Sydney,
Australia)
7. Society and Family, Marcel Widzicz (Southern Virginia University, USA)
8. Gender and Sexuality, Kirk Ormand (Oberlin College, USA)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Emily Wilson is a Professor of Classical Studies and Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
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