Crisis on Stage 1st Edition by Andreas Markantonatos, Bernhard Zimmermann ISBN 3110271567 9783110271560

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ISBN 10: 3110271567 

ISBN 13: 9783110271560

Author: Andreas Markantonatos, Bernhard Zimmermann

This volume explores the relationships between masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and critical events of Athenian history, by bringing together internationally distinguished scholars with expertise on different aspects of ancient theatre. These specialists study how tragic and comic plays composed in late fifth century BCE mirror the acute political and social crisis unfolding in Athens in the wake of the military catastrophe in 413 BCE and the oligarchic revolution in 411 BCE. With events of such magnitude the late fifth century held the potential for vast and fast cultural and intellectual change. In times of severe emergency humans gain a more conscious understanding of their historically shaped presence; this realization often has a welcome effect of offering new perspectives to tackle future challenges. Over twenty academic experts believe that the Attic theatre showed increased responsiveness to the pressing social and political issues of the day to the benefit of the polis. By regularly promoting examples of public-spirited and capable figures of authority, Greek drama provided the people of Athens with a civic understanding of their own good.

Table of contents:

Part I: Sophocles

1. Sophocles Philoctetes and Political Nostalgia
2. Genos, Gennaios, and Athens in the Later Tragedies of Sophocles
3. Sophocles’ Theseus
4. The Sense of Place: Oedipus at Colonus, Political Geography, and the Defence of a Way of Life
5. Athens and Athenian Space in Oedipus at Colonus

Part II: Euripides
6. Mythical Paradigms in Euripides: The Crisis of Myth
7. Fragmenting the Self: Society and Psychology in Euripides’ Electra and Ion
8. Myth and Performance on the Athenian Stage: Praxithea, Erechtheus, their Daughters, and the Aetiology of Autochthony
9. Euripides’ Bacchae: The End of an Era or the Beginning of a New One?
10. Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis: War and Human Sacrifice
11. Leadership in Action: Wise Policy and Firm Resolve in Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis
12. The Return of the Father: Euripides Antiope, Hypsipyle, and Phoenissae
13. Euripides’ Family Reunion Plays and their Socio-Political Resonances

Part III: Aristophanes and Greek Comedy
14. Women on the Acropolis and Mental Mapping: Comic Body-Politics in a City in Crisis, or Ritual and Metaphor in Aristophanes Lysistrata
15. Persians, Oligarchs, and Festivals: The Date of Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae
16. Comedy and the Crises

Part IV: Greek Drama
17. The Dionysiac Plays of Aeschylus and Euripides’ Bacchae: Reaffirming Traditional Cult in Late Fifth Century
18. Problem Kids: Young Males and Society from Electra to Bacchae
19. Metatheatre and Crisis in Euripides Bacchae and Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus
20. Altruism, Sovereignty, and the Degeneration of Imperial Hegemony in Greek Tragedy and Thucydides
21. Scripting Revolution: Democracy and its Discontents in Late Fifth-Century Drama

Back Matter
22. Notes on Contributors
23. Bibliography
24. General Index

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