A companion to Greek tragedy / editör, Justina Gregory.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fifth-century Athenian history and tragedy / Paula Debnar. -- Tragedy and religion: the problem of origins / Scott Scullion. -- Dithyramb, comedy, and satyr-play / Bernd Seidensticker. -- Tragedy's teaching / Neil Croally. -- Tragedy and the early Greek philosophical tradition / William Allan. -- Tragedy, rhetoric, and performance culture / Christopher Pelling. -- Pictures of tragedy? / Jocelyn Penny Small. -- Myth / Michael J. Anderson. -- Beginnings and endings / Deborah H. Roberts. -- Lyric / Luigi Battezzato. -- Episodes / Michael R. Halleran. -- Music / Peter Wilson. -- Theatrical production / John Davidson. -- Aeschylean tragedy / Suzanne Saïd. -- Sophoclean tragedy / Ruth Scodel. -- Euripidean tragedy / Justina Gregory. -- Lost tragedies: a survey / Martin Cropp. -- Tragedy and anthropology / Christine Sourvinou-Inwood. -- Values / Douglas Cairns. -- The gods / Donald Mastronarde. -- Authority figures / Mark Griffith. -- Women's voices / Judith Mossman. -- Marginal figures / Mary Ebbott. -- Text and transmission / David Kovacs. -- Learning from suffering: ancient responses to tragedy / Stephen Halliwell. -- Polis and empire: Greek tragedy in Rome / Vassiliki Panoussi. -- Italian reception of Greek tragedy and the tragic / Albert Henrichs. -- Greek tragedy and western perceptions of actors and acting / Ismene Lada-Richards. -- The theater of innumerable faces / Herman Altena. -- Justice in translation: rendering ancient Greek tragedy / Paul Woodruff.

"A Companion to Greek Tragedy" provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. The volume comprises 31 essays written by an international cohort of scholars. The essays are organized into four sections. The opening section on Contexts surveys Greek tragedy's historical, religious, political, and artistic background. A section on Elements follows, examining the genre's structural components. A section on Approaches presents a series of essays exemplifying particular lines of enquiry; and the final section on Reception traces the interpretative tradition from ancient to modern times. Throughout the volume, all ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear, making the Companion accessible to those without detailed knowledge of the language or the genre.

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