Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical TragedyThrough a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during the 'Lycurgan Era' (338-322 BC), a number of measures were taken in Athens to affirm to the Greek world that the achievement of tragedy was owed to the unique character of the city. By means of rhetoric, architecture, inscriptions, statues, archives and even legislation, the 'classical' tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides) and their plays came to be presented as both the products and vital embodiments of an idealised Athenian past. This study marks the first account of Athens' invention of its own theatrical heritage and sheds new light upon the interaction between the city's literary and political history. |
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Contents
Civic poetry in Lycurgus Against Leocrates | 25 |
Scripts and statues or a law of Lycurgus own | 60 |
The Lycurgan | 92 |
Aeschines and Demosthenes | 129 |
Classical tragedy and its comic lovers | 159 |
Aristotle and the theatre of Athens | 191 |
Macedon | 221 |
| 250 | |
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| Title | Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy Cambridge Classical Studies |
| Author | Johanna Hanink |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2014 |
| ISBN | 1107062020, 9781107062023 |
| Length | 280 pages |
| Subjects | › › Drama / Ancient & Classical History / Ancient / General History / Ancient / Greece Literary Collections / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical Social Science / Archaeology |
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