Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature

Author:   Chris Kraus (Professor of Classics, Yale University) ,  Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek, Cambridge University) ,  Helene P. Foley (Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University) ,  Jas Elsner (Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
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Pages:   480
Publication Date:   07 June 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Chris Kraus (Professor of Classics, Yale University) ,  Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek, Cambridge University) ,  Helene P. Foley (Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University) ,  Jas Elsner (Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.799kg
ISBN:  

9780199276028


ISBN 10:   0199276021
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   07 June 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Ruth Padel: The Red-Gold Border I. Visualizing Tragedy Laura Slatkin: Notes on Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad Leslie Kurke: Visualizing the Choral: Epichoric Poetry, Ritual, and Elite Negotiation in Fifth-Century Thebes Richard Martin: Outer Limits, Choral Space II. Drama on Drama Simon Goldhill: What's in a Wall? Pietro Pucci: Euripides and Aristophanes: What Does Tragedy Teach? III. Drama and Visualization: The Images of Tragedy and Myth Francois Lissarrague: Looking at Shield Devices: Tragedy and Vase Painting Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux: The Invention of the Erinyes Oliver Taplin: A New Pair of Pairs: Tragic Witnesses in Western Greek Vase-Painting Luca Giuliani and Glenn W. Most: Medea in Eleusis, in Princeton IV. Visualizing Drama: The Divinities of Tragedy and Comedy Edith Hall: Tragedy Personified Peter Wilson: Nike's Cosmetics: Dramatic Victory, the End of Comedy, and Beyond John Henderson: Everything to do with Dionysus? (Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, inv. MM 1962:7/ABV 374 no. 197) V. The History of Tragic Vision Ewen Bowie: Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy Jas Elsner: Philostratus Visualizes the Tragic: Some Ecphrastic and Pictorial Receptions of Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era Helene P. Foley: Envisioning the Tragic Chorus on the Modern Stage V. Coda Jean-Pierre Vernant: Rencontre avec Froma Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Presence de Froma Zeitlin

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Froma Zeitlin is one of the most influential contemporary classicists, and this all-star volume is a fitting tribute to her scholarship Luigi Battezzato, Bryn Mawr Classical Review


Froma Zeitlin is one of the most influential contemporary classicists, and this all-star volume is a fitting tribute to her scholarship * Luigi Battezzato, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *


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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.

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