TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hanink,Johanna
TI  - Lycurgan Athens and the making of classical tragedy
T2  - [Cambridge classical studies]
SN  - 9781316004722
AV  - DF285 .H36 2014eb
U1  - 882/.0109162 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Lycurgus,
KW  - Greek drama (Tragedy)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Tragedy
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Greece
KW  - Athens
KW  - Tragédie grecque
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Tragédie
KW  - Littérature et société
KW  - Grèce
KW  - Athènes
KW  - tragedies
KW  - aat
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Ancient
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - DRAMA
KW  - Ancient, Classical & Medieval
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Drama
KW  - gnd
KW  - Griechisch
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Athens (Greece)
KW  - History
KW  - To 146 B.C
KW  - Athènes (Grèce)
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C
KW  - Athen
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Tragedies
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: through the Lycurgan looking glass -- Part I. Classical tragedy and the Lycurgan programme. 1. Civic poetry in Lycurgus' Against Leocrates ; 2. Scripts and statues, or a law of Lycurgus' own ; 3. Site of change, site of memory: the 'Lycurgan' Theatre of Dionysus -- Part II. Reading the theatrical heritage. 4. Courtroom drama: Aeschines and Demosthenes ; 5. Classical tragedy and its comic lovers ; 6. Aristotle and the theatre of Athens -- Epilogue: classical tragedy in the age of Macedon
N2  - "Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during the 'Lycurgan Era' (338-322 BC), a number of measures were taken in Athens to affirm to the Greek world that the achievement of tragedy was owed to the unique character of the city. By means of rhetoric, architecture, inscriptions, statues, archives and even legislation, the 'classical' tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides) and their plays came to be presented as both the products and vital embodiments of an idealised Athenian past. This study marks the first account of Athens' invention of its own theatrical heritage and sheds new light upon the interaction between the city's literary and political history"--
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