Aeschylean Tragedy by Alan H Sommerstein
Aeschylus was the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art-forms. In this completely revised and updated edition of his book Alan H. Sommerstein, analysing the seven extant plays of the Aeschylean corpus (one of them probably in fact the work of another author) and utilising the knowledge we have of the seventy or more whose scripts have not survived, explores Aeschylus' poetic, dramatic, theatrical and musical techniques, his social, political and religious ideas, and the significance of his drama for our own day. Special attention is paid to the Oresteia trilogy, and the other surviving plays are viewed against the background of the four-play productions of which they formed part. There are chapters on Aeschylus' theatre, on his satyr-dramas, and on his dramatisations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and a detailed chapter-by-chapter guide to further reading. No knowledge of Greek is assumed, and all texts are quoted in translation.-
Aristophanes: Lysistrata
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Aristophanes: Clouds
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Aristophanes: Frogs
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Greek Drama and Dramatists
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Aristophanes: Acharnians
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Talking about Laughter
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Menander in Contexts
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Menander: Epitrepontes
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Oath and State in Ancient Greece
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Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece
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The Tangled Ways of Zeus
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Aeschylus: Suppliants
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Aristophanes: Thesmophoriazusae
Sommerstein builds his interpretations carefully from exemplary command of detail, and offers admirably clear positions with which one can grapple* BMCR *
Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of many works, including most recently "Sophocles: Selected Fragmentary Plays I" (with D.G. Fitzpatrick & T.H. Talboy, 2006); "Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society" (ed. with J. Fletcher, 2007); "The Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece" (database) (with A.J. Bayliss & I.C. Torrance, 2007); "Aeschylus" (3 vols) (Loeb Classical Library, 2008); "Talking about Laughter and Other Studies in Greek Comedy" (Oxford, 2009).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780715638248 |
| ISBN 10 | 0715638246 |
| Title | Aeschylean Tragedy |
| Author | Alan H Sommerstein |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2010-08-10 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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