THEATER OUTSIDE ATHENS by Kathryn Bosher (Editor) ( 9780521761789 )

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Title:

THEATER OUTSIDE ATHENS
DRAMA IN GREEK SICILY AND SOUTH ITALY

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Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0521761786

ISBN 13:

9780521761789

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

2 August, 2012

Pages:

486

Description:

The first collection of essays on the development of Greek theater in ancient Sicily and South Italy.

Synopsis:

This volume brings together archeologists, art historians, philologists, literary scholars, political scientists, and historians to articulate the ways in which western Greek theater was distinct from that of the Greek mainland and, at the same time, to investigate how the two traditions interacted. The chapters intersect and build on each other in their pursuit of a number of shared questions and themes: the place of theater in the cultural life of Sicilian and South Italian 'colonial cities;' theater as a method of cultural self-identification; shared mythological themes in performance texts and theatrical vase-painting; and the reflection and analysis of Sicilian and South Italian theater in the work of Athenian philosophers and playwrights. Together, the essays explore central problems in the study of western Greek theater. By gathering a number of different perspectives and methods, this volume offers the first wide-ranging examination of this hitherto neglected history.

Illustrations:

45 b/w illus. 9 maps

Publication:

Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

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Returnable

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