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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

Author Biography:

Ian C. Storey is Emeritus Professor of Classics andAncient History at Trent University, Canada. The author ofEupolis: Poet of Old Comedy (2003), Euripides Suppliant Women (2008), and The Fragments of Old Comedy(2011), he has published numerous papers on Euripides, Old Comedy,and the fiction of C. S. Lewis. Arlene Allan is Senior Lecturer in the Department ofClassics at Otago University, New Zealand, where she teachesancient Greek literature and mythology, as well as ancient Greekand Latin.
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December 24th, 2013
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  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Edition
2nd edition
Pages
352
Dimensions
172x245x17
ISBN-13
9781118455128
Product ID
21022361

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