Nothing to Do with Dionysos? Athenian Drama in Its Social Context: Athenian Drama in Its Social Context - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0691015252 ISBN 13: 9780691015255

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1992

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"[A] valuable volume.... [The essays] are generally not only adventurous and various, but ... thought-provoking advances."---Oliver Taplin, The Times Literary Supplement

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These critically diverse essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honour of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically stratified community, whose delegates handled all details from the seating arrangements to the qualifications of choral competitors. The growing complexity of these performances may have provoked the Athenian saying "nothing to do with Dionysos", implying that theatre had lost its exclusive focus on its patron. This collection considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centrepieces of civic ceremonies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0691015252
• ISBN 13: 9780691015255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436
• Editor: Winkler John J.