This volume is the most thorough examination on the origins of Greek drama to date. It brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars in a variety of fields, including classical archaeology, iconography, cultural history, theatre history, philosophy, and religion. Though it primarily focuses ...
Greek tragedy, created in the city-state of Athens in the last thirty years of the sixth century B.C.E., is the earliest kind of European drama. Its subject matter is normally drawn from mythology, except that for the ancient Greeks "mythology" was a kind of historical saga, often ...
For most of Antiquity, the art of ancient Persia was closely intertwined with that of its neighbours, especially Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), and influenced - and was influenced by - Greek art. Early Persian works of portable art feature the intricate ceramics from Susa and Persepolis (c.30...
This word signifying a teacher-figure or adviser derives from the Greek mythological figure of Mentor, the friend of Odysseus who takes charge of his son Telemachus when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan War and then gets lost for a decade....
And it is for me ap leasure to dedicate this work to ap erson who is also constant in the study of Greek theatre, Professor Georgia Xanthakis-Karamanos.But Im ust sayt hat this pleasure is not freeo fd isappointment because the thesis Ih avem aintained from the beginning,n amelyt ...
Within Ancient Greek culture, the sacred rites of Dionysus have been appropriated and transformed to theatre performances. The shaman became the actor, the participants became the audience, the sacred altar became the stage. From myth as a ritual performance emerged the theatre of tragedy, in ...
Greek forms that one would call satiric. But the Greeks had no specific word for satire, and bysatura(which meant originally something like “medley” or “miscellany” and from which comes the Englishsatire) Quintilian intended to specify that kind of poem “invented” byGaius Lucilius, ...