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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Storey, Ian C. (Author), Allan, Arlene (Author)
ISBN: 1118455126     ISBN-13: 9781118455128
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $53.41  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Drama | Ancient & Classical
- Literary Criticism
Dewey: 882.010
LCCN: 2013030058
Series: Blackwell Guides to Classical Literature
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.7" W x 9.5" (1.15 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
 
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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