Performance in Greek and Roman TheatreGeorge William Mallory Harrison, Vaios Liapēs, Vayos Liapis This series has existed for the past 50 years. It provides a forum for the publication of well over 300 scholarly works on all aspects of the ancient world, including inscriptions, papyri, language, the history of material culture and mentality, the history of peoples and institutions, but also latterly the classical tradition, for example, neo-latin literature and the history of Classical scholarship. |
Contents
Introduction Making Sense of Ancient Performance | 1 |
OPSIS PROPS SCENE | 43 |
GM Sifakis The Misunderstanding of Opsis in Aristotles Poetics | 45 |
The Right Use of Opsis | 63 |
Greek Drama Comparator Traditions and the Analysis of Stage Objects | 77 |
An Overview | 89 |
JP Small Skenographia in Brief | 111 |
GREEK TRAGEDY | 129 |
G Ley Rehearsing Aristophanes | 291 |
ROME AND EMPIRE | 309 |
R Cowan Havent I Seen You before Somewhere? Optical Allusions in Republican Tragedy | 311 |
The Scenic Games of L Anicius Gallus and the Aesthetics of Greek and Roman Performance | 343 |
Setting Performance and Perception Within the miseenscne of the Roman House | 361 |
D Dutsch Towards a Roman Theory of Theatrical Gesture | 409 |
AK Petrides Lucians On Dance and the Poetics of the Pantomime Mask | 433 |
Visualising Myth in the Roman Empire | 451 |
AJ Podlecki Aeschylean Opsis | 131 |
psefon d Oresthi tend ego prostesomai | 149 |
Aeschylus Eumenides and the Topography of Opsis | 161 |
R Wyles Heracles Costume from Euripides Heracles to Pantomime Performance | 181 |
Props in Sophocles Philoctetes and Ajax | 199 |
RC Ketterer Skene Altar and Image in Euripides Iphigenia among the Taurians | 217 |
V Liapis Staging Rhesus | 235 |
GREEK COMEDY | 255 |
CW Marshall Three Actors in Old Comedy Again | 257 |
Costume and Identity in Cratinus Thracian Women fr 73 and Cratinus techniques of political satire | 279 |
INTEGRATING OPSIS | 475 |
GA Kovacs Stringed Instruments in FifthCentury Drama | 477 |
Matthias Langhoffs Sparagmos of Euripides Bacchae 1997 | 501 |
Archaeological Models for the Actor | 517 |
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Index of Greek Words | 591 |
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Common terms and phrases
Acharnians action actors Aeschylus Agamemnon Ajax ancient Anicius appearance argued Aristophanes Aristotle Aristotle’s Artemis Athenaeus Athenian Athens atrium audience audience’s Bacchae character chorus classical comedy comic costume Cratinus Csapo cultural dance defined definition depicted difficult Dionysus discussion eisodos elements entrance Eumenides Euripides evidence example fifth century fig figure final find fingers first genre gestures Greek drama Hector Heracles identified influence Iphigenia kithara later lines Lycinus lyra mask means Neoptolemus objects Odysseus Oedipus ofthe onstage opsis Oresteia Orestes painted pantomime pantomime dancer Peisetaerus performance peristyle Philoctetes Plautus play play’s playwright plot Poetics poets Polybius production props Quintilian reference reflect Republican tragedy Revermann 2006a Rhesus rhetorical role Roman sacrifice scene script sculptural semiotic significant skenographia Sommerstein Sophocles space specific spectacle spectators stage properties statue suggests sword symbolic tablinum Taplin theatre theatrical three actors tragic translation Trojan vase visual allusion Vitruvius
Bibliographic information
| Title | Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre Volume 353 of Mnemosyne Leiden / Supplementum Volume 353 of Mnemosyne Supplements Volume 353 of Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature Volume 353 of Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava: Supplementum |
| Editors | George William Mallory Harrison, Vaios Liapēs, Vayos Liapis |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2013 |
| ISBN | 9004244573, 9789004244573 |
| Length | 590 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / General Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical |
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