عنوان

Greek tragedy and the historian /

(Number (ISBN

0198149875 (hb : acid-free paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780198149873 (hb : acid-free paper)

Number

b534268

Title Proper

Greek tragedy and the historian /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Christopher Pelling.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1997.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 268 p., [8] p. of plates :

Other Physical Details

ill. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and indexes.

Text of Note

1. Aeschylus' Persae and History / Christopher Pelling -- 2. Constructing the Heroic / P. E. Easterling -- 3. Tragic Filters for History: Euripides' Supplices and Sophocles' Philoctetes / A. M. Bowie -- 4. The Theatre Audience, the Demos, and the Suppliants of Aeschylus / Alan H. Sommerstein -- 5. Leading the Tragic Khoros: Tragic Prestige in the Democratic City / Peter Wilson -- 6. The Place and Status of Foreigners in Athenian Tragedy / Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- 7. Between Public and Private: Tragedy and Athenian Experience of Rhetoric / Stephen Halliwell -- 8. Gods Cruel and Kind: Tragic and Civic Theology / Robert Parker -- 9. Tragedy and Religion: Constructs and Readings / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood -- 10. The Ecstasy and the Tragedy: Varieties of Religious Experience in Art, Drama, and Society / Robin Osborne -- 11. Conclusion / Christopher Pelling.

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Text of Note

The tragic theatre was no mere diversion for a fifth-century Athenian: it was a focal part of the experience of being a citizen. Tragedy explores fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central source for the reconstruction and analysis of the Athenian thought-world. Yet it is also a peculiarly delicate source to use, and the combination of tragic with other material often poses particular problems to the historian. This collection of eleven papers investigates the methods and pitfalls of using tragedy to illuminate fifth-century thought, culture, and society. In the concluding essay Christopher Pelling summarizes two important themes of the book: the problems of using tragedy as evidence; and the light tragedy can shed on civic ideology.

Greek drama (Tragedy)-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.

Historicism.

Literature and history-- Greece.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Athens (Greece), Historiography.

Greece, History, To 146 B.C., Historiography.

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Book number

Pelling, C. B. R.

Date of Transaction

20140218103159.0

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[Book]

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