| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 441 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ingo Gildenhard and Martin Revermann -- The classical tragedians, from Athenion idols to wandering poets / Johanna Hanink -- Situating the gaze of the recipient(s) : theatre-related vase paintings and their contexts of reception / Martin Revermann -- Changing contexts : tragedy in the civic and cultural life of Hellenistic city-states / Paola Ceccarelli -- Buskins & SPQR : Roman receptions of Greek tragedy / Ingo Gildenhard -- Dionysiac theme and dramatic allusion in Ovid's Metamorphoses 4 / Alison Keith -- "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here" : the reception of Euripedes' Iphigenia among the Taurians in Ovid's exile poetry / Jennifer Ingleheart -- Drama and epic narrative : the test case of messenger speech in Seneca's Agamemnon / Annette M. Baertschi -- Seneca and pantomime / Alessandra Zanobi -- A sophist's drama : Lucian and classical tragedy / Thomas Schmitz -- Christians and the theater / Timothy Barnes -- The tragedy of the middle ages / Carol Symes -- Adventures in recording technology : the drama-as-performance in the Greek east / Andrew White -- Whipping Jesus devoutly : the dramaturgy of catharsis and the Christian idea of tragic form |
| Summary |
Beyond the Fifth Century brings together 13 scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Ancient History, Mediaeval Studies) to explore interactions with Greek tragedy from the 4th century BC up to the Middle Ages. The volume breaks new ground in several ways: in its chronological scope, the various modes of reception considered, the pervasive interest in interactions between tragedy and society-at-large, and the fact that some studies are of a comparative nature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Appreciation -- History
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Classical literature -- Greek influences
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Literature, Medieval -- Greek influences
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Intertextuality.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
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Greek drama (Tragedy)
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Appreciation
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Intertextuality
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Rezeption
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Griechisch
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Tragödie
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gildenhard, Ingo, 1970-
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Revermann, Martin.
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| LC no. |
2010017824 |
| ISBN |
9783110223781 |
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3110223783 |
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