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Author Hanink, Johanna, 1982- author.

Title Lycurgan Athens and the making of classical tragedy / Johanna Hanink
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages)
Series [Cambridge classical studies]
Cambridge classical studies.
Contents Introduction: through the Lycurgan looking glass -- Part I. Classical tragedy and the Lycurgan programme. 1. Civic poetry in Lycurgus' Against Leocrates ; 2. Scripts and statues, or a law of Lycurgus' own ; 3. Site of change, site of memory: the 'Lycurgan' Theatre of Dionysus -- Part II. Reading the theatrical heritage. 4. Courtroom drama: Aeschines and Demosthenes ; 5. Classical tragedy and its comic lovers ; 6. Aristotle and the theatre of Athens -- Epilogue: classical tragedy in the age of Macedon
Summary "Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during the 'Lycurgan Era' (338-322 BC), a number of measures were taken in Athens to affirm to the Greek world that the achievement of tragedy was owed to the unique character of the city. By means of rhetoric, architecture, inscriptions, statues, archives and even legislation, the 'classical' tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides) and their plays came to be presented as both the products and vital embodiments of an idealised Athenian past. This study marks the first account of Athens' invention of its own theatrical heritage and sheds new light upon the interaction between the city's literary and political history"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lycurgus, approximately 390 B.C.-approximately 324 B.C.
SUBJECT Lycurgus, approximately 390 B.C.-approximately 324 B.C. fast
Subject Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
Tragedy.
Literature and society -- Greece -- Athens
tragedies.
tragedy (general genre)
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Civilization
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Literature and society
Tragedy
Drama
Griechisch
Rezeption
SUBJECT Athens (Greece) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009120
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057041
Subject Greece
Greece -- Athens
Athen
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Tragedies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781316004722
1316004724
9781316009222
131600922X
9781107449589
1107449588