Citizens on Stage
Subtitle: Comedy and Political Culture in the Athenian Democracy
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: December 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780472112852
Subjects: History; Performing Arts; Plays & playwrights: classical, early & medieval; Comedy (Drama); Democracy; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Politics/International Relations; General; Ancient - Greece; Ancient and Classical; Drama; Political Science / General; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Political aspects; Athens; Citizenship; Comedy; Greece
Description: "In Citizens on Stage, James F. McGlew analyzes Athenian Old Comedy as a model for understanding political life in Athens during the late fifth and early fourth century B.C. During this period, new notions of political participation developed - both supportive of democracy, and hostile to it - that reshaped concepts of citizenship."--BOOK JACKET.