The Reception of Greek Tragedy from 500 to 323 BC

This chapter discusses four landmark items of reception of Greek tragedy while attempting to situate these individual landmarks within the wider cultural landscape. The first of these, Aristophanes' comedy Frogs, was first performed in early 405 and is a response to a traumatic experience, the...

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Published inA Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama pp. 11 - 28
Main Author Revermann, Martin
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Hoboken, NJ John Wiley & Sons, Inc 28.04.2016
Subjects
Against Leocrates
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Frogs
Lycurgus
Poetics
reception of Greek tragedy
theater‐related art
tragedy‐related vase paintings
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Summary:This chapter discusses four landmark items of reception of Greek tragedy while attempting to situate these individual landmarks within the wider cultural landscape. The first of these, Aristophanes' comedy Frogs, was first performed in early 405 and is a response to a traumatic experience, the death of Euripides a few months prior in 406. The use of tragedy as a moral institution is also at the core of the second major item, Lycurgus' speech Against Leocrates which was held in the year 330, i.e., towards the end of the period under scrutiny. While the topic of theater‐related art of the fifth and fourth century, especially as far as tragedy‐related vase paintings are concerned, has been a major area of productive and stimulating research over the past 20 years. Aristotle's Poetics is, of course, one of the ancient texts with the most momentous and influential reception history of its own.
ISBN:9781118347751
1118347757
DOI:10.1002/9781118347805.ch1