Visualizing the Tragic

Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature; Essays in Honour of Froma Zeitlin
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-927602-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 803 g

Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description. Topics treated include the interaction of comedy and dithyramb with tragedy; vase painting and tragedy; representations of Dionysus, of Tragoedia, and of Nike; Homer, Aeschylus, Philostratus, and Longus; choral lyric and ritual performance, choral victories, and the staging of choruses on the modern stage. The common focus of all the essays is an engagement with and response to the unique scholarly voice of Froma Zeitlin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kraus, Chris

Goldhill, Simon

Foley, Helene P.

Elsner, Jas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Chris Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University.

Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University.

Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.