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The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1) : Neglected Authors.
"Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; A genre in fragments; 'Minor' tragedians and the canon; Types of evidence; 'Reading' lost works; Note on the plan and structure of this volume; Note on conventions and abbreviations; 1 The Earliest Tragedies; Submerged literature and the origins of tragedy; Thespis; Choerilus; Pratinas; Phrynichus; 2 Some Fifth-Century Tragedians; Ion and Achaeus; Neophron; Aristarchus; Theognis; Diogenes of Athens; Critias; 3 Agathon; Life and career; Art and Life: The evidence of Aristophanic comedy.
- Agathon's styleAphorisms and quotation culture; Agathon's originality; The plays; 4 Tragic Family Trees; 5 Some Fourth-Century Tragedians; Chaeremon; Dionysius; Antiphon; Dicaeogenes; Patrocles; Cleaenetus; Polyidus; Diogenes of Sinope; Theodectes; 6 The Very Lost; Tragedians attested in literary sources; Tragedians in epigraphic sources; Less securely attested tragedians; Epilogue; APPENDIX 1; APPENDIX 2; APPENDIX 3; APPENDIX 4; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index.