Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus plays, Euripides' Medea and
Bacchae, and Aristophanes' Birds and Lysistrata are discussed in
this lively and scholarly volume. The author's experience teaching
these plays to gifted high school students makes this volume
particularly useful. The drama festivals, the adaptations of myth,
the relevance of Aristotelian criteria, and the political and
cultural background of each play are described fully, and the
nature of tragedy and comedy, plot construction, stagecraft, theme,
character, imagery and individual odes and speeches are analyzed in
depth. The 5th century BC witnessed the flourishing of Athenian
culture and was one of the most influential periods in history. The
achievements of the Greeks at that time forever shaped our
political and legal institutions and provided the foundation for
Western civilization. At the same time, the world of the Greeks is
distant and exotic to contemporary students. The values and beliefs
of the Greeks are best represented in the plays that were crafted
at that time, and these works continue to be widely read and
studied. This book is a valuable introduction to ancient Greek
drama. Designed for high school students, undergraduates, and their
teachers, this work describes the origins and physical aspects of
ancient Greek theatre, discusses Aristotle's Poetics, and analyzes,
in ten separate chapters, ten frequently studied Greek plays:
Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Antigone, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus
at Colonus, Euripides' Medea and Bacchae and Aristophanes' Birds
and Lysistrata. For each there is cultural, political and
mythological background, plot synopsis, and analysis of overall
structure and importantscenes, speeches and odes. The Aristophanes
chapters explore comic method and all chapters discuss theme and
stagecraft in depth.
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