Dionysus Writes
Subtitle: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: October 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801486937
Subjects: Plays & playwrights: classical, early & medieval; Theatre, drama; Theater - History & Criticism; Performing Arts; Plays / Drama; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Performing Arts/Dance; Greece
First sentence: IN AN UNKNOWN YEAR IN THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C.E., POSSIBLY AT THE end of the 430S, when Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos were performed, the Athenian poet Kallias wrote and presented a play about the alphabet.