City and the Stage
Subtitle: Performance, Genre, and Gender in Plato's Laws
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780190266172
Subjects: Plato; Greek drama, history and criticism
Description: What role did the performance of poetry, music, song, and dance play in the political life of the ancient city? How has philosophy positioned itself and articulated its own ambitions in relation to the poet tradition? This book poses such questions through a reading of Plato's last, longest, and unfinished work, the Laws.