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Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy (Hardcover)
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Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
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Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that
the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy
just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian
War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and
specifically during the 'Lycurgan Era' (338 322 BC), a number of
measures were taken in Athens to affirm to the Greek world that the
achievement of tragedy was owed to the unique character of the
city. By means of rhetoric, architecture, inscriptions, statues,
archives and even legislation, the 'classical' tragedians
(Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides) and their plays came to be
presented as both the products and vital embodiments of an
idealised Athenian past. This study marks the first account of
Athens' invention of its own theatrical heritage and sheds new
light upon the interaction between the city's literary and
political history."
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