Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature

Kraus, Chris; Goldhill, Simon; Foley, Helene P., Elsner, Jas, (Eds.)

ISBN 10: 0199276021 / ISBN 13: 9780199276028

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007

About this Item

Hard cover with unclipped dust jacket, both in very good condition. Dedication on FEP is signed by Jas Elsner. Light shelfwear to DJ, including minor tanning and light creasing to cover edges. Boards are in fine condition, pages tightly bound, content unmarked. CN.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199276021
• ISBN 13: 9780199276028
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed and Dedicated By Editor
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description. Topics treated include the interaction of comedy and dithyramb with tragedy; vase painting and tragedy; representations of Dionysus, of Tragoedia, and of Nike; Homer, Aeschylus, Philostratus, and Longus; choral lyric and ritual performance, choral victories, and the staging of choruses on the modern stage. The common focus of all the essays is an engagement with and response to the unique scholarly voice of Froma Zeitlin.

About the Author

Chris Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University. Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.