Nothing to Do with Dionysos? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nothing to Do with Dionysos? write by John J. Winkler. This book was released on 2020-07-21. Nothing to Do with Dionysos? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor 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 theater 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 centerpieces of civic ceremonies. The contributors, in addition to the editors, include Simon Goldhill, Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Franois Lissarrague, Oddone Longo, Nicole Loraux, Josiah Ober, Ruth Padel, James Redfield, Niall W. Slater, Barry Strauss, and Jesper Svenbro.
Nothing to Do with Dionysos?
Nothing to Do with Dionysos? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nothing to Do with Dionysos? write by John J. Winkler. This book was released on 1990. Nothing to Do with Dionysos? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The more we learn about the original production of tragedies and comedies in Athens the more it seems wrong even to call them plays in the modern sense of the word, ' write the editors in this collection of critically diverse innovative essays aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama.
After Dionysus
After Dionysus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After Dionysus write by William Storm. This book was released on 2019-06-30. After Dionysus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William Storm reinterprets the concept of the tragic as both a fundamental human condition and an aesthetic process in dramatic art. He proposes an original theoretical relation between a generative and consistent tragic ground and complex characterization patterns. For Storm, it is the dismemberment of character, not the death, that is the signature mark of tragic drama. Basing his theory in the sparagmos, the dismembering rite associated with Dionysus, Storm identifies a rending tendency that transcends the ancient Greek setting and can be recognized transhistorically. The dramatic character in any era who suffers the tragic fate must do so in the manner of the ancient god of theater: the depicted self is torn apart, figuratively if not literally, psychologically if not physically. Storm argues that a newly objectified concept of the tragic can prove more useful critically and diagnostically than the traditional and more subjective tragic "vision." Further, he develops a theory of the tragic field, a model for the connective and cumulative activity that brings about the distinctive Dionysian effect upon character. His theory is supported with case studies from Agamemnon and Iphigenia in Aulis, King Lear, and The Seagull. Storm's examination of the dramatic form of tragedy and the existential questions it raises is sensitive to both their universal relevance and their historical particularity.
Playing the Other
Playing the Other - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing the Other write by Froma I. Zeitlin. This book was released on 1996. Playing the Other available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Zeitlin explores the diversity and complexity of these interactions through the most influential literary texts of the archaic and classical periods, from epic (Homer) and didactic poetry (Hesiod) to the productions of tragedy and comedy in fifth-century Athens.
Redefining Dionysos
Redefining Dionysos - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Redefining Dionysos write by Alberto Bernabé. This book was released on 2013-06-26. Redefining Dionysos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30 studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult, myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults, literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late antiquity. The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing theory that would immediately become partial, the book narrows the focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in antiquity.
