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  Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature (Hardback) Edited by Chris Kraus, Edited by Simon Goldhill, Edited by Helene P. Foley, Edited by Jas Elsner

  

  

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  Short Description for Visualizing the Tragic A collection of essays that brings new insight to the question of the continuing, and inexhaustible, fascination of Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE. There is particular reference to the visual - the myriad ways in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 26 July 2007
  • Format: Hardback 480 pages
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  • Categories: Art History: Ancient & Classical BCE to c 500 CE | Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
  • ISBN 13: 9780199276028 ISBN 10: 0199276021

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• Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description. Topics treated include the interaction of comedy and dithyramb with tragedy; vase painting and tragedy; representations of Dionysus, of Tragoedia, and of Nike; Homer, Aeschylus, Philostratus, and Longus; choral lyric and ritual performance, choral victories, and the staging of choruses on the modern stage. The common focus of all the essays is an engagement with and response to the unique scholarly voice of Froma Zeitlin.