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Book SynopsisDrawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this selection of papers from the decennial Greek Drama V conference (Vancouver, 2017) explores the works of the ancient Greek playwrights and showcases new methodologies with which to study them. Sixteen chapters from a field of international contributors examine a range of topics, from the politics of the ancient theatre, to the role of the chorus, to the earliest history of the reception of Aeschylus'
Oresteia. Employing anthropological, historical, and psychological critical methods alongside performance analysis and textual criticism, these studies bring fresh and original interpretations to the plays. Several contributions analyse fragmentary tragedies, while others incorporate ideas on the performance aspect of certain plays. The final chapters deal separately with comedy, naturally focusing on the plays of Aristophanes and Menander.
Greek Drama V offers a window into where the academic field of Gree
Trade ReviewWithout a doubt the overall academic quality of the papers is high. * The Classical Review *
Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Politics of Greece’s Theatrical Revolution, ca. 500-ca. 300 BC (Eric Csapo, University of Sydney, Australia and Peter Wilson, University of Sydney, Australia) 2. Selective Memory and Epic Reminiscence in Sophocles’
Ajax (Sheila Murnaghan, University of Pennsylvania, USA) 3. Elegy and Sophocles’
Philoctetes: A Reflection on Generic Resonance (Kathryn Mattison, McMaster University, Canada) 4. A Dramaturgy of the Self: Deianira Between the Grid and the Couch (Eleni Papazoglou, University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 5. Tragic Overliving and Deferred Funerary Ritual in Euripides’
Hecuba (John Gibert, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) 6. Affective Suspense in Euripides’
Electra (Francis Dunn, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) 7. The Fall of Troy, the Glory of Athens: Chorus and Community in Euripides’
Trojan Women (Ruggiero Lionetti, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) 8. Choral Mirroring in Euripides’
Phaethon (Rosa Andújar, King’s College, London, UK) 9.
Erôs in Pieces (?): Tragic Erôs in Euripides' Andromeda and Antigone (Anastasia Stavroula Valtadorou, University of Edinburgh, UK) 10. The Case against Domestic Seclusion in (Euripides) fr. 1063 (Elizabeth Scharffenberger, Columbia University, USA) 11. Aeschylus and the Iconography of the Erinyes (Anna Simas, University of Washington) 12. The women of Thebes as Aeschylean Erinyes: the first messenger speech of Euripides’
Bacchae (Paul G. Johnston, Harvard University, USA) 13. Electra-style: Reception(s) of Aeschylus’
Oresteia in Aristophanes’
Clouds (Brett M. Rogers, University of Puget Sound, USA) 14. Making Terminology: on the Use of Generic Vocabulary in Old Attic Comedy (A. Novokhatko, University of Frieburg, Germany) 15. Stratophanes the Ephebe? The Hero's Journeys in Menander’s
Sikyonioi (Niall Slater, Emory University, USA) 16. The Pre-History of the
Miles Gloriosus in Greek Drama (Wilfred E. Major, Louisiana State University, USA) Notes Glossary of technical terms Bibliography Index
