Visualizing the Tragic
Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 June 2007
- ISBN 9780199276028
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages480 pages
- Size 220x150x25 mm
- Weight 799 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 35 in-text illustrations 0
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Short description:
A collection of essays that brings new insight to the question of the continuing, and inexhaustible, fascination of Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE. There is particular reference to the visual - the myriad ways in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description.
MoreLong description:
Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description. Topics treated include the interaction of comedy and dithyramb with tragedy; vase painting and tragedy; representations of Dionysus, of Tragoedia, and of Nike; Homer, Aeschylus, Philostratus, and Longus; choral lyric and ritual performance, choral victories, and the staging of choruses on the modern stage. The common focus of all the essays is an engagement with and response to the unique scholarly voice of Froma Zeitlin.
Froma Zeitlin is one of the most influential contemporary classicists, and this all-star volume is a fitting tribute to her scholarship
Table of Contents:
The Red-Gold Border
I. Visualizing Tragedy
Notes on Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad
Visualizing the Choral: Epichoric Poetry, Ritual, and Elite Negotiation in Fifth-Century Thebes
Outer Limits, Choral Space
II. Drama on Drama
What's in a Wall?
Euripides and Aristophanes: What Does Tragedy Teach?
III. Drama and Visualization: The Images of Tragedy and Myth
Looking at Shield Devices: Tragedy and Vase Painting
The Invention of the Erinyes
A New Pair of Pairs: Tragic Witnesses in Western Greek Vase-Painting
Medea in Eleusis, in Princeton
IV. Visualizing Drama: The Divinities of Tragedy and Comedy
Tragedy Personified
Nike's Cosmetics: Dramatic Victory, the End of Comedy, and Beyond
Everything to do with Dionysus? (Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, inv. MM 1962:7/ABV 374 no. 197)
V. The History of Tragic Vision
Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy
Philostratus Visualizes the Tragic: Some Ecphrastic and Pictorial Receptions of Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era
Envisioning the Tragic Chorus on the Modern Stage
V. Coda
Rencontre avec Froma
Presence de Froma Zeitlin
