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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: George Harrison , Vayos LiapisPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 353 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.014kg ISBN: 9789004244573ISBN 10: 9004244573 Pages: 592 Publication Date: 01 March 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: eng, grc, lat Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Vayos Liapis George W.M. Harrison Costas Panayotakis OPSIS, PROPS, SCENE The Misunderstanding of `Opsis' in Aristotle's `Poetics' Grigoris M. Sifakis Propping Up Greek Tragedy: The Right Use of Opsis David Konstan Generalizing about Props: Greek Drama, Comparator Traditions, and the Analysis of Stage Objects Martin Revermann Actors' Properties in Ancient Greek Drama: An Overview Robert Tordoff Skenographia in Brief Jocelyn Penny Small GREEK TRAGEDY Aeschylean Opsis A.J. Podlecki Casting votes in Aeschylus Geoff Bakewell Under Athena's Gaze: Aeschylus' `Eumenides' and the Topography of Opsis Peter Meineck Heracles' Costume fromEuripides' `Heracles' to Pantomime Performance Rosie Wyles Weapons of Friendship: Props in Sophocles' `Philoctetes' and `Ajax' Judith Fletcher `Skene', Altar and Image Euripides' `Iphigeneia among the Taurians' Robert Ketterer Staging `Rhesus' Vayos Liapis GREEK COMEDY Three Actors in Old Comedy, Again C. W. Marshall `The Odeion on his head': Costume and identity in Cratinus' Thracian Women fr. 73 Jeffrey Rusten Rehearsing Aristophanes Graham Ley ROME AND EMPIRE Haven't I Seen you Before Somewhere? Optical Allusions in Republican Tragedy Robert Cowan Anicius vortit barbare: the Scenic Games of L. Anicius Gallus and the Aesthetics of Greek and Roman Performance George Fredric Franko Otium, Opulentia and Opsis: Setting, Performance and Perception Within the mise-en-scene of the Roman House Richard Beacham Towards a Roman Theory of Theatrical Gesture Dorota Dutsch Lucian's `On Dance' and the poetics of the pantomime mask A.K. Petrides Pantomime: Visualising Myth in the Roman Empire Edith Hall INTEGRATING OPSIS Stringed Instruments in Fifth-Century Drama George Kovacs Bloody (Stage) Business: Matthias Langhoff's Sparagmos of Euripides' `Bacchae' (1997) Gonda Van Steen From Sculpture to Vase-painting: Archaeological Models for the Actor Fiona MacintoshReviewsWhile reading I often felt that the individual authors were inviting me to change places and sit near them for a slightly better look at the same stage from another part of the theater. Some readers will find some seats more rewarding than others, but on the whole this is a diverse but pleasingly cohesive collection that greatly expands our view of ancient performance.[...] The volume on the whole is meticulously edited, remarkably free of typographical errors, and contains numerous helpful black and white photographs - Christopher B. Polt, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.11.27 Author InformationVayos Liapis, Ph.D. (1997) in Classics, University of Glasgow, is Associate Professor of Theatre at the Open University of Cyprus. He has published extensively on Greek literature, especially tragedy; his latest book is A Commentary on the 'Rhesus' Attributed to Euripides (Oxford University Press, 2012). George W.M. Harrison, Ph.D. (1985) in Classics and Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University, is Assistant Professor of Classics at Concordia where he also teaches in Art History. He is active in productions in the Theatre Department. He has written extensively on Roman imperial tragedy and satyr drama. Contributors: Vayos Liapis, George W.M. Harrison, Costas Panayotakis, Grigoris M. Sifakis, David Konstan, Martin Revermann, Robert Tordoff, Jocelyn Penny Small, A. J. Podlecki, Geoff Bakewell, Peter Meineck, Rosie Wyles, Judith Fletcher, Robert Ketterer, C. W. Marshall, Jeffrey Rusten, Graham Ley, Robert Cowan, George Fredric Franko, Richard Beacham, Dorota Dutsch, A. K. Petrides, Edith Hall, George Kovacs, Gonda Van Steen, and Fiona Macintosh. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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