Alan H. Sommerstein: Aeschylean Tragedy

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Beschreibung

Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms. In this completely revised and updated edition of his book Alan H. Sommerstein, analysing the seven extant plays of the Aeschylean corpus (one of them probably in fact the work of another author) and utilising the knowledge we have of the seventy or more whose scripts have not survived, explores Aeschylus' poetic, dramatic, theatrical and musical techniques, his social, political and religious ideas, and the significance of his drama for our own day. Special attention is paid to the "Oresteia" trilogy, and the other surviving plays are viewed against the background of the four-play productions of which they formed part. There are chapters on Aeschylus' theatre, on his satyr-dramas, and on his dramatisations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey", and a detailed chapter-by-chapter guide to further reading. No knowledge of Greek is assumed, and all texts are quoted in translation.

Über den Autor

Alan H. Sommerstein is Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham, UK. His publications include Aeschylus (3 volumes in the Loeb Classical Library, 2008), Talking about Laughter and Other Studies in Greek Comedy (2009) and Aeschylean Tragedy (Bloomsbury Academic, 2010), Menander: Samia (2013), Menander in Contexts (ed., 2014) and The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy (ed., 3 vols., 2019).

Zusammenfassung

No knowledge of Greek is assumed, and all texts are quoted in translation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Note to the Reader
1. The Life and Times of Aeschylus
2. Aeschylus' Theatre
3. The Tetralogy
4. The Persians
6. The Danaid Plays
7. The Oresteia
8. The Prometheus Plays
9. Aeschylean Satyr-drama
10. Slices from Homeric Feasts
11. Aeschylus, the Gods and the World
12. Aeschylean Drama and the Political Moment
13. Of An Age, or For All Time?
Genealogies
Bibliographical Guide
References
Index of Passages Cited
General Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780715638248
ISBN-10:	0715638246
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Sommerstein, Alan H.
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	244 x 170 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Alan H. Sommerstein
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.08.2010
Gewicht:	0,685 kg