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Tragedy in Athens
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: David Wiles
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-08-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. David Wiles explores the performance of tragedy as a spatial practice spe
Tragedy and Athenian Religion
Language: en
Pages: 580
Authors: Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexamination of
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: P. E. Easterling
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire,
Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: Johanna Hanink
Categories: Drama
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The first account of how Athens invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy during the later fourth century BC.
Athena's Justice
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Categories: Athena (Greek deity) in literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Peter Lang

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Athena is recognized as an allegory or representative of Athens in most Athenian public art except in tragedy. Perhaps this is because tragedy is rarely studied