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Calder Iii, William M., R. Scott Smith (Ed.)

THEATROKRATIA Collected Papers on the Politics and Staging of Greco-Roman Tragedy Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Georg Olms Verlag, 2005

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Year of publication
2005
ISBN
3487128551
Author
Calder Iii, William M., R. Scott Smith (Ed.)
Publishers
Georg Olms Verlag
Keyword
Classical Greek & Roman Literary Criticism Greek Literature, Latin Literature Plays & Drama Theater & Theatre
Cover description
Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 3487128551

Description

Gift inscription to W. J. Slater from Calder III to ffep. Very minor shelfwear. A couple of corrections in pen done in author's hand to 2 pages. ; The volume gathers for the first time thirty-five scattered articles by Calder published 1958-1998 concerned with the political content of selected tragedies and their staging from Thespis to Seneca. An historian seeks to see tragedies in context, whether Pericles’ Athens or Nero’s Rome. He regularly contests the opinio communis. Eumenides protests against Periclean reform. Zeus in Prometheus is the tyrant Demos. Kreon not Antigone is the hero of Antigone. Neoptolemos in Philoctetes is a clever deceiver from the start. Sophocles Oinomaos was the inspiration of the East Pediment at Olympia. Atreus in Seneca’s Thyestes is the model whom Nero is urged to follow. The usual size of the Senecan chorus was three, never fifteen. Thespis’ chorus was six. A careful index locorum antiquorum ends the volume and makes the material easily accessible. ; Spudasmata Band 104; 431 pages; Signed by Author