Theater outside Athens (eBook, ePUB)

Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy
Redaktion: Bosher, Kathryn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and themes: the place of theater in the cultural life of Sicilian and South Italian 'colonial cities;' theater as a method of cultural self-identification; shared mythological themes in performance texts and theatrical vase-painting; and the reflection and analysis of Sicilian and South Italian theater in the work of Athenian philosophers and playwrights. Together, the essays explore central problems in the study of western Greek theater. By gathering a number of different perspectives and methods, this volume offers the first wide-ranging examination of this hitherto neglected history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139507868
• Artikelnr.: 52938077

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Tyrants, Texts, and Theater in Early Sicily: 1. Early
Greek settlement in the West: the limits of colonialism Jonathan Hall; 2. A
prolegomenon to performance in the West Kathryn Morgan; 3. Challenging
authority: Epicharmus between epic and rhetoric Andreas Willi; 4. On
Epicharmus' literary and philosophic background Lucia Rodríguez-Noriega
Guillén; 5. Hieron's Aeschylus Kathryn Bosher; 6. Aeschylus' Aetnaeae and
the identity of Xouthus: poetic appropriation of Sicily from Stesichorus to
Euripides David Smith; 7. A Theseus outside Athens: Dionysius I of Syracuse
and tragic self-presentation Anne Duncan; 8. Dionysius I and Sicilian
theatrical traditions in Plato's Republic: representing continuities
between democracy and tyranny S. Sara Monoson; Part II. Stone Theaters,
Wooden Stages, and Western Performance Traditions: 9. Between performance
and identity: the social and cultural context of theaters in late Classical
and Hellenistic Sicily Clemente Marconi; 10. Montagna dei Cavalli: a new
Greek theater in early Hellenistic Sicily Stefano Vassallo; 11. How was
Athenian drama played in the Greek West? Oliver Taplin; 12. Myth and
tragedy: images on vases and oral transmission between Central and Northern
Apulia in the second half of the fourth century BC Luigi Todisco; 13. Whose
line is it anyway? 'Phlyax' comedy repossessed Chris Dearden; 14. Comic
vases in south Italy: continuity and innovation in the development of a
figurative language J. R. Green; 15. The grave's a fine and funny place:
chthonic rituals and comic theater in the Greek West Bonnie MacLachlan;
Part III. Hellenistic Reflections: 16. In pursuit of Sophron: Doric mime
and Attic comedy in Herodas' Mimiambi David Kutzko; 17. 'Nor when a man
goes to Dionysus' holy contests' (Theoc. 17.112) - outlines of theatrical
performance in Theocritus Benjamin Acosta-Hughes.