(P/B) A GUIDE TO ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA

Παρουσίαση

This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC. Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama - tragedy, comedy, and satyr-drama. Surveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on 'lost' playwrights. Examines contextual issues such as the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theater; drama's relationship with the worship of Dionysos; political dimensions of drama; and how to read and watch Greek drama. Includes single-page synopses of every surviving ancient Greek play. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface
List of Figures
List of Maps
Abbreviations and Signs
1. Aspects of Ancient Greek Drama
Drama
The Dramatic Festivals
Drama and Dionysos
The Theatrical Space
The Performance
Drama and the Polis
2. Greek Tragedy
On the Nature of Greek Tragedy
Aeschylus
Sophokles
Euripides
The Other Tragedians
3. The Satyr-Play
4. Greek Comedy
Origins
Old Comedy
The Generations of Old Comedy
Aristophanes
Middle Comedy
Menander and New Comedy
5. Approaching Greek Drama
Textual Criticism and Commentary
New Criticism
Structuralism
Myth and "Version"
Ritual and Drama
Psychoanalytic Approaches
Gender Studies
Performance Criticism
6. Play Synopses
Aeschylus' Persians (Persae, Persai )
Aeschylus' Seven (Seven against Thebes)
Aeschylus' Suppliants (Suppliant Women, Hiketides)
Aeschylus' Oresteia
Aeschylus' Agamemnon
Aeschylus' Libation-Bearers (Choephoroe)
Aeschylus' Eumenides (Furies)
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound (Prometheus Vinctus, Prometheus Desmotes)
Sophokles' Ajax (Aias)
Sophokles' Antigone
Sophokles' Trachinian Women (Trachiniai, Women of Trachis)
Sophokles' Oedipus Tyrannos (King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus the King)
Sophokles' Elektra (Electra)
Sophokles' Philoktetes (Philoctetes)
Sophokles' Oedipus at Kolonos (Colonus)
Euripides' Alkestis (Alcestis)
Euripides' Medea
Euripides' Children of Herakles (Heraclidae, Herakleidai )
Euripides' Hippolytos
Euripides' Andromache
Euripides' Hecuba (Hekabe)
Euripides' Suppliant Women (Suppliants, Hiketides)
Euripides' Elektra (Electra)
Euripides' Herakles (Hercules Furens, The Madness of Herakles)
Euripides' Trojan Women (Troades)
Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians (Iphigeneia in Tauris)
Euripides' Ion
Euripides' Helen
Euripides' Phoenician Women (Phoinissai )
Euripides' Orestes
Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis
Euripides' Bacchae (Bacchants)
Euripides' Cyclops
[Euripides'] Rhesos
Aristophanes' Acharnians
Aristophanes' Knights (Hippeis, Equites, Horsemen)
Aristophanes' Wasps (Sphekes, Vespae)
Aristophanes' Peace (Pax, Eirene)
Aristophanes' Clouds (Nubes, Nephelai)
Aristophanes' Birds (Ornithes, Aves)
Aristophanes' Lysistrate
Aristophanes' Women at the Thesmophoria (Thesmophoriazousai )
Aristophanes' Frogs (Ranae, Batrachoi )
Aristophanes' Assembly-Women (Ekklesiazousai )
Aristophanes' Wealth (Ploutos)
Menander's The Grouch (Old Cantankerous, Dyskolos)
Menander's Samian Woman (Samia) or Marriage-contract
A Note on Meter
Glossary of Names and Terms
Further Reading
Index