The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3592-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 1808 Seiten, Format (B × H): 218 mm x 287 mm, Gewicht: 3606 g

The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy is the first comprehensive reference work to cover all facets of the distinct form of dramatic theater that flourished in ancient Greece with its apex in the 5th century BCE.
- Offers the first comprehensive reference work to cover all facets of the distinct form of dramatic theater that flourished in ancient Greece with its apex in the 5th century BCE
- Covers the 32 extant plays and playwrights of the period, including the great surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and their contemporaries, and considers lost works and surviving fragments
- Explores topics including the origins and history of Greek tragedy; their texts, language, style, and rhetoric; as well as recurrent themes such as family, death, and adultery
- Provides an invaluable reference to the most important dramatic genre of the ancient Greek world, and to the historical, philosophical, cultural, and political contexts in which these plays were performed

3 Volumes
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Roisman, Hanna M.

Roisman, Hanna M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatertheorie, Ästhetik des Theaters, Theaterkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume I

List of Entries ix
Notes on Contributors xxxi
Preface and Acknowledgments lv
Alphabetical List of Extant Tragedies lviii
List of Abbreviations lix

Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy A–F 1–562

Volume II

Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy G–R 563–1192

Volume III

Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy S–Z 1193–1493

References 1495
Index 1629

Über Autor(innen)

Hanna M. Roisman is the Arnold Bernhard Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Colby College. Her publications include Nothing Is as It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides’ Hippolytus (1999), Sophocles: Philoctetes (2005), and Sophocles: Electra (2008).