Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver TaplinOliver Taplin, Martin Revermann, Peter Wilson Generic boundaries in late fifth-century Athens / Helene P. Foley -- Audience and emotion in the reception of Greek drama / Ian Ruffell -- Greek middlebrow drama (something to do with Aphrodite?) / Mark Griffith -- Costing the Dionysia / Peter Wilson -- Nothing to do with Demeter? something to do with Sicily! : theatre and society in the early fifth-century West / Barbara Kowalzig -- The Odyssey as performance poetry / Oswyn Murray -- Performance and rivalry : Homer, Odysseus, and Hesiod / Adrian Kelly -- Performing the will of Zeus : the [invalid characters] and the scope of early Greek epic / William Allan -- Theatrical furies : thoughts on Eumenides / Pat Easterling -- Aeschylus' Eumenides, Chronotopes, and the 'aetiological mode' / Martin Revermann -- Star choruses : Eleusis, Orphism, and new musical imagery and dance / Eric Csapo -- The last word : ritual, power, and performance in Euripides' Hiketides / Athena Kavoulaki -- Intimate relations : children, childbearing, and parentage on the euripidean stage / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Character and characterization in Greek tragedy / Bernd Seidensticker -- Scenes at the door in aristophanic comedy / Peter Brown -- The poetics of the mask in old comedy / David Wiles -- Putting performance into focus / Robin Osborne -- The Greek gem : a token of recognition / Alfonso Moreno -- Image and representation in the pottery of Magna Graecia / François Lissarrague -- Wagner's Greeks : the politics of hellenism / Simon Goldhill -- Resurrecting ancient Greece in Nazi Germany : the Oresteia as part of the Olympic Games in 1936 / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Can the Odyssey ever be tragic? : historical perspectives on the theatrical realization of Greek epic / Edith Hall -- An Oedipus for our times? : Yeats's version of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos / Fiona Macintosh. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
EXPLORATIONS | 13 |
EPIC | 159 |
TRAGEDY | 217 |
COMEDY | 347 |
ICONOGRAPHY | 393 |
RECEPTION | 451 |
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