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This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for
AS and A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September
2017). It covers Components 21 and 22 from the 'Culture and the
Arts' Component Group: Greek Theatre by James Renshaw and Laura
Swift Imperial Image by Robert Hancock-Jones Why was tragedy and
comedy so central to Athenian life? How did drama challenge
Athenians to reflect on their way of living? How did the emperor
Augustus present himself as the restorer of Rome's greatness? To
what extent did he provide an example to later political figures as
a promoter of his regime? This book guides AS and A-Level students
to a greater understanding of these issues. The Greek Theatre
chapter explores the festival context in which tragedies and
comedies were performed, and then analyses three plays: Oedipus the
King by Sophocles, Bacchae by Euripides and Frogs by Aristophanes.
The Imperial Image chapter analyses the self-presentation of Rome's
most dynamic emperor, who claimed to have found Rome 'a city of
bricks, but left it a city of marble'. The ideal preparation for
the final examinations, all content is presented by experts and
experienced teachers in a clear and accessible narrative. Ancient
literary and visual sources are described and analysed, with
supporting images. Helpful student features include study
questions, quotations from contemporary scholars, further reading,
and boxes focusing in on key people, events and terms. Practice
questions and exam guidance prepare students for assessment. A
Companion Website is available at
www.bloomsbury.com/class-civ-as-a-level.
The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a
much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers
the most important thematic topics studied at school or university
level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main figures, it
focuses on the broader questions of what defines tragedy, what its
particular preoccupations are, and what makes these texts so widely
studied and performed more than 2,000 years after they were
written. As such, the book will be of interest to students taking
broad courses on Greek tragedy, while also being suitable for the
general reader who wants an overview of the subject. All passages
of tragedy discussed are translated by the author and supplementary
information includes a chronology of all the surviving tragedies, a
glossary, and guidance on further reading.
In antiquity Archilochus of Paros was considered a poet rivalled
only by Homer and Hesiod, yet he has been relatively neglected by
modern scholarship. This is largely due to the fragmentary state of
his surviving poetry, though our knowledge has expanded
significantly since the middle of the twentieth century as new
papyrological finds continue to augment the corpus and our
understanding of the poet and his work evolves. This volume is the
first ever complete commentary on Archilochus, filling a
substantial gap in scholarship on archaic Greek poetry and playing
an important and timely role in re-establishing him as a major
author and in locating the recent discoveries in the broader
context of his oeuvre. Presenting the fragmentary texts alongside
brand new translations, the volume also contains a comprehensive
introduction offering an accessible guide to Archilochus' work and
context, and a detailed commentary providing textual, literary, and
historical analysis of all of his surviving poetry and discussing
broader questions of performance and genre in early Greek poetic
culture. The scope and depth of the analysis not only highlights
the diversity and sophistication of Archilochus' work, but also
sheds new light on our understanding of Greek iambus and elegy,
while his influence on later writers means that the commentary will
be of significance to scholars and students of Hellenistic and
Roman literature, and the later lyric tradition, as well as archaic
and classical Greek literature.
"Euripides' Ion" is the story of a young man's search for his
identity, and a woman's attempt to come to terms with her past.
Through the story of a divine rape and its consequences, it asks
questions about the justice of the gods and the nature of
parenthood, encouraging its audience to consider contemporary
concerns through the filter of traditional myth. This detailed
study outlines the pre-history and later reception of the Ion myth,
and provides a literary interpretation of the play's main themes,
aiming to combine analysis of the text with a consideration of its
cultural contexts. Chapters on religion, family, and national
identity investigate how Euripides handles these issues in the
light of the values of his day, and a chapter on genre discusses
the play's upbeat ending and explores how we should define tragedy.
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