Csapo / Goette / Green Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-098038-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 290 Seiten

Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs?

Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" ( 568c).

For more than forty years scholars have explored the political, ideological, structural and economic links between democracy and theatre in ancient Greece. By contrast, the links between autocracy and theatre are virtually ignored, despite the fact that for the first 200 years of theatre's existence more than a third of all theatre-states were autocratic.

For the next 600 years, theatre flourished almost exclusively under autocratic regimes. The volume brings together experts in ancient theatre to undertake the first systematic study of the patterns of use made of the theatre by tyrants, regents, kings and emperors.

is the first comprehensive study of the historical circumstances and means by which autocrats turned a medium of mass communication into an instrument of mass control.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Greek and Roman theatre, Classical liter

Autoren/Hrsg.

Csapo, Eric

Goette, Hans Rupprecht

Green, J. Richard

Le Guen, Brigitte

Paillard, Elodie

Stoop, Jelle

Wilson, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Griechische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Über Autor(innen)

E. Csapo, Univ. Warwick; H.R. Goette, DAI Berlin; B. Le Guen, Univ. Paris; J.R. Green, E. Paillard, J. Stoop & P. Wilson, Univ. Sydney.

E. Csapo, Univ. Warwick; H.R. Goette, DAI Berlin; B. Le Guen, Univ. Paris; J.R. Green, E. Paillard, J. Stoop & P. Wilson, Univ. Sydney.