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Includes essays that intend to restore the social context of ancient Greek drama. This title considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies.

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"[A] valuable volume... [The essays] are generally not only adventurous and various, but ... thought-provoking advances."--Oliver Taplin, The Times Literary Supplement

Nothing to Do with Dionysos

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    A Paperback / softback by John J. Winkler, Froma I. Zeitlin

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 5 May 1992
      ISBN-13 9780691015255
      978-0691015255
      ISBN-10 0691015252

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Includes essays that intend to restore the social context of ancient Greek drama. This title considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies.

      Trade Review
      "[A] valuable volume... [The essays] are generally not only adventurous and various, but ... thought-provoking advances."--Oliver Taplin, The Times Literary Supplement

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