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Why Athens?: A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics

Why Athens?: A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics


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This collection of fourteen essays and six short responses reconsiders Greek tragedy as a reflection of Athenian political culture. The contributors try to avoid making the controversial assumption that the politics of tragedy were of simple relevance to the Athenian democracy. Instead, they look for other ways to explain the Athenianness of tragedy. These include: the polyphonic discourse of tragedy; the presentation of Athens in some plays (and the representation of foreigners too); tragedy as an Athenian form of choral performance; and the ways in which family matters are presented, for example marriage alliances or inheritance law. Why Athens? opens up important new ways of considering tragedy as a political art form.

Table of Contents:
Mark Griffith & D. M. Carter: Introduction I. Context 1: Peter Wilson: The glue of democracy? Tragedy, structure and finance 2: D. M. Carter: Plato, drama, and rhetoric 3: Anne Duncan: Nothing to do with Athens? Tragedians at the courts of tyrants Richard Seaford: Response II. Discourse 4: Peter Burian: Athenian tragedy as democratic discourse 5: Jon Hesk: Euripidean euboulia and the problem of 'tragic politics' 6: Elton T. E. Barker: 'Possessing an unbridled tongue': frank speech and speaking back in Euripides' Orestes Malcolm Heath: Response III. FamiliesMark Griffith: 7: Mark Griffith: Extended families, marriage, and inter-city relations in (later) Athenian tragedy: Dynasts II 8: Eleanor OKell: Inheritance and the Athenian nature of Sophoclean tragedy Peter Rhodes: Response IV. Choruses 9: Sheila Murnaghan: Choroi achoroi: the Athenian politics of tragic choral identity 10: Eirene Visvardi: Pity and panhellenic politics: choral emotion in Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women Ian Ruffell: Response V. Suppliants 11: Angeliki Tzanetou: Supplication and empire in Athenian tragedy 12: Graziella Vinh: Athens in Euripides' Suppliants: ritual, politics, and theatre Barbara Goff: Response VI. Athens and Greece 13: David Rosenbloom: The panhellenism of Athenian tragedy 14: John Gibert: Hellenicity in later Euripidean tragedy Anthony J. Podlecki: Response

About the Author :
D. M. Carter is Lecturer in Greek, University of Reading

Review :
There is much too commend in this volume... a significant contribution to an important and controversial topic. The essays here remind us that, as far as the politics of tragedy are concerned, there is much more to be discussed about tragedy than whether, and how, it was democratic ... all the contributions are of high quality.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199562329
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199562326
  • Publisher Date: 07 Apr 2011
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 494
  • Spine Width: 34 mm
  • Weight: 904 gr


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