Lost dramas of classical Athens
Subtitle: Greek tragic fragments
By: edited by Fiona McHardy, James Robson and David Harvey.
Contributors: McHardy, Fiona, ed.; Robson, J. E. ed.; Harvey, David, 1937- ed.
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Exeter
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780859897525
Subjects: Aeschylus -- Criticism and interpretation.; Sophocles -- Criticism and interpretation.; Euripides -- Criticism and interpretation.; Eschyle -- Critique et interprétation.; Sophocle -- Critique et interprétation.; Euripide -- Critique et interprétation.; Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.; Tragedies.; Fragmenten.; Tragédie grecque -- Histoire et critique.
Description: Discussing the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, this title examines the genre and the society that it produced such works. Papyrus finds over the last 100 years have altered and supplemented our understanding of the Greek culture of this time, and this title reflects research to this point.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fragments and their collectors / Rudolf Kassel; title: Tragic thrausmatology : the study of the fragments of Greek tragedy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / David Harvey; title: Euripidean fragmentary plays : the nature of sources and their effect on reconstruction / Christopher Collard; title: Lycians in the Cares of Aeschylus / Antony G. Keen; title: Spectral traces : ghosts in tragic fragments / Ruth Bardel; title: Death and wedding in Aeschylus' Niobe / Richard Seaford; title: From treacherous wives to murderous mothers : filicide in tragic fragments / Fiona McHardy; title: Tragic fragments, ancient philosophers and the fragmented self / Christopher Gill; title: Aristophanes on how to write tragedy / James Robson; title: Hypsipyle : a version for stage / David Wiles.