Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781118455128
Year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Pages: 352


Description:


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