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Visualizing the Tragic
Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature
Edited by Chris Kraus, Simon Goldhill, Helene P. Foley, and Jas Elsner
480 pages
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35 in-text illustrations
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216x138mm
978-0-19-927602-8
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Hardback
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07 June 2007
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- Written by an international team of outstanding scholars
- Brings new perspectives to bear on tragedy's status as a privileged genre throughout Western theatrical history
- Explores current issues in the study of Greek drama, with particular emphases on the visual and on reception
- Analyses the intersections between Greek drama and other art forms, concentrating on ritual, performance, and art
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.Readership: Scholars and students of classics, especially of ancient Greek art, literature, and religion; of theatre studies.
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Edited by Chris Kraus, Professor of Classics, Yale University, Simon Goldhill, Professor of Greek, Cambridge University, Helene P. Foley, Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University, and Jas Elsner, Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University Contributors:
Ewen Bowie, University of Oxford
Jas Elsner, University of Oxford and University of Chicago
Helene P. Foley, Barnard College, Columbia University
Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux, College de France and the Centre Louis Gernet, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Paris
Luca Giuliani, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich
Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge
Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
John Henderson, University of Cambridge
Chris Kraus, Yale University
Leslie Kurke, University of California at Berkeley
Francois Lissarrague, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Richard Martin, Stanford University
Glenn W. Most, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and University of Chicago
Ruth Padel
Pietro Pucci, Cornell University
Laura Slatkin, New York University and University of Chicago
Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford
Jean-Pierre Vernant, College de
France and the Centre Louis Gernet, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Peter Wilson, University of Sydney
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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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