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Death and Marriage - Greek and Roman Drama (Paperback, New edition)
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Death and Marriage - Greek and Roman Drama (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Carysfort Press Ltd.
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Loot Price R512
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This book aims to provide a comprehensive, but succinct analysis of
the tragedies and comedies written by Greek and Roman dramatists.
The book is comprehensive in the ways it deals not just with Greek
tragedy of the fifth century BCE, but also with Seneca's tragedies
of the first century CE. The book also deals with two types of
Greek comedy: the comedy of ideas in Aristophanes, and the later
social comedy of Menander, this being appropriated in Rome by the
comic dramatists Plautus and Terence. The tragedies and comedies of
fifth century Athens do not endorse the official ideology of the
city. They raise questions about the position of women, the never
ending war with Sparta, the nature of religious belief. Crucial
here is the depiction by Euripides and by Sophocles of powerful
women characters, female intruders who disrupt the male world:
Medea, Antigone, Electra, Lysistrata. Comic drama usually concludes
on a positive note: with marriage, with plenty of food and drink.
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