The Theatrical Cast of Athens

The Theatrical Cast of Athens
Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2006-10-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199298890

An examination of ancient Greek drama, and its relationship to the society in which it was produced. By focusing on the ways in which the plays treat gender, ethnicity, and class, and on their theatrical conventions, Edith Hall offers an extended study of the Greek theatrical masterpieces within their original social context.

The Rivals of Aristophanes

The Rivals of Aristophanes
Author: David Harvey
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Total Pages: 575
Release: 2002-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1910589594

The work of the 'other' comic poets of classical Athens, those who competed with, and in some cases defeated, their (eventually) better-known fellow comedian, Aristophanes, has almost eluded the historical record. The poetry of Cratinus, Phrynichos, Eupolis and the rest has survived only in tantalising, often tiny, fragments and citations. Modern studies in this field have themselves often been difficult of access. Here an exceptional cast of scholars, including most of the leading international authorities, provides a set of 28 interpretative essays to cover every one of these 'other' poets of Athenian Old Comedy for whom significant evidence survives. The work includes a comprehensive bibliography, and is a landmark in the study of Old Comedy.

The Pronomos Vase and Its Context

The Pronomos Vase and Its Context
Author: Oliver Taplin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010-08-12
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199582599

The Pronomos Vase is the single most important piece of pictorial evidence for ancient theatre to have survived from ancient Greece. It depicts an entire theatrical chorus and cast along with the celebrated musician Pronomos, in the presence of their patron god, Dionysos. In this collection of essays, illustrated with nearly 60 drawings and photographs, leading specialists from a variety of disciplines tackle the critical questions posed by this complex hub of evidence. Thediscussion covers a wide range of perspectives and issues, including the artist's oeuvre; the pottery market; the relation of this piece to other artistic, and especially celebratory, artefacts; the political and cultural contexts of the world that it was produced in; the identification of figures portrayedon it: and the significance of the Pronomos Vase as theatrical evidence. The volume offers not only the most recent scholarship on the vase but also some ground-breaking interpretations of it.

Collectanea Alexandrina

Collectanea Alexandrina
Author: Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 902
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783110081718

The series publishes important new editions of and commentaries on texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, especially annotated editions of texts surviving only in fragments. Due to its programmatically wide range the series provides an essential basis for the study of ancient literature.

Parchments of Gender

Parchments of Gender
Author: Maria Wyke
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 291
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780198150800

Parchments of Gender forms an important source of inter-disciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in ancient history. The central and unifying theme of the collection is the body's relation to gender. With essays covering the ancient communities of Greece, Rome and Judaea, the volume argues that ancient bodies are 'parchments of gender'. They are textual skins on which gender is inscribed and on which can be traced other interconnecting matrices of knowledge and power that give ancient bodies their seemingly legible contours. The volume also demonstrates the central role of antiquity in developing the cultural formation of the gendered body as a concept and a practice which is still prevalent in society today.

Creating a Role

Creating a Role
Author: Konstantin Stanislavsky
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1989
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780878309818

This third volume examines the development of a character from the viewpoint of three widely contrasting plays.