This book addresses the political aspects of fifth-century Athenian
tragedies, setting them in their immediate historical context. It
is an important topic and one that only rarely and sporadically
finds its way into accessible accounts of Greek tragedy. Carter
sets out to elucidate to a student and general audience how and why
Athenian tragedy should be read as a political art form. The
political content of ancient drama has been the subject of much
scholarly debate in the last thirty years, but much of that debate
is highly technical and inaccessible. Carter demonstrates that like
the contemporary satirical comedy of Aristophanes, or indeed the
sculptures of the Parthenon, tragedy involved a highly political
dimension.He provides stimulating and provocative analyses, from
varied points of view, of the political aspect in several
individual tragedies (always referred to in modern translations).
To this he adds a chapter on the 'reception' of political tragedy,
alluding to theatre and film productions of the Greek plays that
have taken an overtly political stance within a modern context.
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