Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
Contributors: Simon Goldhill (Editor); Robin Osborne (Editor)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 5, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780521604314
Subjects: Performing Arts; History; History - General History; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Athens (Greece)--Civilization; History / Ancient / Greece; History / General; General
First sentence: Why 'performance'? It is not a word from a Greek root, nor is it easy to see how an adequate case could be made for regarding 'performance' as an ancient Greek conceptual category.