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A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity (Hardcover)
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A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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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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