The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed and bleached jacket, minimal staining on bottom edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener und verblichener Umschlag, minimale Anschmutzung auf Fu�chnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - CONTENTS: 1. General Introduction, Eric Csapo and Margaret C. Miller -- PART I: KOMASTS AND PREDRAMATIC RITUAL -- 2. Introduction, Thomas H. Carpenter -- 3. The Corpus of Komast Vases: From Identity to Exegesis, Tyler Jo Smith -- 4. Komasts, Mythic Imaginary, and Ritual, Cornelia Isler-Kerenyi -- 5. Let�s Hear it for the Fat Man: Padded Dancers and the Prehistory of Drama, J. Richard Green -- 6. Discussion, Thomas H. Carpenter -- PART II: EMERGENCE OF DRAMA -- 7. Introduction and Discussion, Gregory Nagy -- 8. From Hymn to Tragedy: Aristotle�s Genealogy of Poetic Kinds, David Depew -- 9. Myths of Ritual in Athenian Vase-Paintings of Silens, Guy Hedreen -- 10. From Ritual to Narrative, Matthias Steinhart -- 11. �And Now All the World Shall Dance!� (Eur. Bacch. 114): Dionysus� Choroi between Drama and Ritual, Barbara Kowalzig -- PART III: COMPARING OTHER CULTURES -- 12. Introduction, Kimberley C. Patton -- 13. Ritual Drama in Ancient Egypt, Ronald J. Leprohon -- 14. Ritual and Performance, Dance and Drama in Ancient Japan, G�nter Zobel -- 15. Representation in European Devotional Rituals: The Question of the Origin of Medieval Drama in Medieval Liturgy, Nils Holger Petersen -- 16. Discussion, Kimberley C. Patton -- PART IV: FROM RITUAL TO DRAMA -- 17. From Ritual to Drama: A Concluding Statement, Richard Seaford. ISBN 9780521836821