基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005. Written by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars; all ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear.
Full Description
The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today.
Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars
Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of Greek tragedy
All ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear
Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and a generous and informative combined bibliography
Contents
List of Illustrations x
Note on Contributors xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xvi
Abbreviations and Editions xvii
PART I CONTEXTS 1
1 Fifth-Century Athenian History and Tragedy 3
Paula Debnar
2 Tragedy and Religion: The Problem of Origins 23
Scott Scullion
3 Dithyramb, Comedy, and Satyr-Play 38
Bernd Seidensticker
4 Tragedy's Teaching 55
Neil Croally
5 Tragedy and the Early Greek Philosophical Tradition 71
William Allan
6 Tragedy, Rhetoric, and Performance Culture 83
Christopher Pelling
7 Pictures of Tragedy? 103
Jocelyn Penny Small
PART II ELEMENTS 119
8 Myth 121
Michael J. Anderson
9 Beginnings and Endings 136
Deborah H. Roberts
10 Lyric 149
Luigi Battezzato
11 Episodes 167
Michael R. Halleran
12 Music 183
Peter Wilson
13 Theatrical Production 194
John Davidson
PART III APPROACHES 213
14 Aeschylean Tragedy 215
Suzanne Saïd
15 Sophoclean Tragedy 233
Ruth Scodel
16 Euripidean Tragedy 251
Justina Gregory
17 Lost Tragedies: A Survey 271
Martin Cropp
18 Tragedy and Anthropology 293
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
19 Values 305
Douglas Cairns
20 The Gods 321
Donald Mastronarde
21 Authority Figures 333
Mark Griffith
22 Women's Voices 352
Judith Mossman
23 Marginal Figures 366
Mary Ebbott
PART IV RECEPTION 377
24 Text and Transmission 379
David Kovacs
25 Learning from Suffering: Ancient Responses to Tragedy 394
Stephen Halliwell
26 Polis and Empire: Greek Tragedy in Rome 413
Vassiliki Panoussi
27 Italian Reception of Greek Tragedy 428
Salvatore Di Maria
28 Nietzsche on Greek Tragedy and the Tragic 444
Albert Henrichs
29 Greek Tragedy and Western Perceptions of Actors and Acting 459
Ismene Lada-Richards
30 The Theater of Innumerable Faces 472
Herman Altena
31 Justice in Translation: Rendering Ancient Greek Tragedy 490
Paul Woodruff
Bibliography 505
Index 541
