A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity

Name: A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350416529
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Series: The Cultural Histories Series

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity explores the evolution of ancient tragedy from its archaic Greek roots through its central role in Athenian civic life to its adaptations in Roman cultures. This collection of essays by leading scholars examines how tragedy's dramatic forms, performance settings, and social significance transformed over time, reflecting varied conceptions of serious storytelling and stagecraft. Themes include performance media, social and political contexts, philosophical and religious dimensions, and issues of gender and family.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of ancient drama, classical studies, theatre history, and cultural history. It suits readers seeking an in-depth, thematic overview of tragedy's role and reinvention in antiquity.

A definitive overview of the development and history of tragedy in the ancient world.

A definitive overview of the development and history of tragedy in the ancient world.

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In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts.

Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. Tragedy was consistently seen as the most serious of all dramatic genres; these essays trace a sequence of different visions of what the most serious kind of dramatic story might be, and the most appropriate ways of telling those stories on stage.

Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual, and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity offers an in-depth exploration of these themes, providing a comprehensive understanding of the transformative power of tragedy in ancient cultures.