The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)

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Beschreibung

Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and even though nearly all are lost, a certain amount is known about them through fragments and other types of evidence.

Matthew Wright offers an authoritative two-volume critical introduction and guide to the lost tragedies. This first volume examines the remains of works by playwrights such as Phrynichus, Agathon, Neophron, Critias, Astydamas, Chaeremon, and many others who have been forgotten or neglected. (Volume 2 explores the lost works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.)

What types of evidence exist for lost tragedies, and how might we approach this evidence? How did these plays become lost or incompletely preserved? How can we explain why all tragedians except Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides became neglected or relegated to the status of 'minor' poets? What changes and continuities can be detected in tragedy after the fifth century BC? Can the study of lost works and neglected authors change our views of Greek tragedy as a genre? This book answers such questions through a detailed study of the fragments in their historical and literary context. Including English versions of previously untranslated fragments as well as in-depth discussion of their significance, The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy makes these works accessible for the first time.

Über den Autor

Matthew Wright

Zusammenfassung

Includes a guide to further reading, an annotated list of all known tragedians and titles, a glossary and chronology

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Prologue
A genre in fragments
'Minor' tragedians and the canon
Types of evidence
'Reading' lost works
Note on the plan and structure of this volume
Note on the conventions and abbreviations

1.The Earliest Tragedies
Submerged literature and the origins of tragedy
Thespis
Choerilus
Pratinas
Phrynichus

2. Some Fifth-Century Tragedians
Ion and Achaeus
Neophron
Aristarchus
Theognis
Diogenes of Athens
Critias

3. Agathon
Life and career
Art and Life: The evidence of Aristophanic comedy
Agathon's style
Aphorisms and quotation culture
Agathon's originality
The plays

4. Tragic family trees
Iophon
Sophocles the Younger
Aristias
Euripides I and II
Polyphrasmon
Euphorion and Euaeon
Philocles
Morismus
Astydamas the Elder
Philocles the Younger
Astydamas the Younger
Carcinus the Elder
Xenocles
Carcinus the Younger

5. Some Fourth-Century Tragedians
Chaeremon
Dionysius
Antiphon
Dicaeogenes
Patrocles
Cleaenetus
Polyidus
Diogenes of Sinope
Theodectes

6. The Very Lost
Tragedians attested in literary sources
Tragedians in epigraphic sources
Less securely attested tragedians

Epilogue
Appendix 1: Translations
Appendix 2: Glossary
Appendix 3: Chronology
Appendix 4: Guide to further reading and resources
Bibliography of works cited
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781472567758
ISBN-10:	1472567757
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wright, Matthew
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Maße:	233 x 154 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Matthew Wright
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.11.2016
Gewicht:	0,467 kg

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