A Guide To Ancient Greek Drama

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 ?ost?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

• • Author: Ian C. Storey, Arlene Allan
• • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• • Publication Date: Jan 28, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 352 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1118455126
• • ISBN-13: 9781118455128