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BL
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712079
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b534268
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Greek tragedy and the historian /\ edited by Christopher Pelling.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1997.
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xii, 268 p., [8] p. of plates :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0198149875 (hb : acid-free paper)
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: 9780198149873 (hb : acid-free paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and indexes.
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| Contents
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1. Aeschylus' Persae and History / Christopher Pelling -- 2. Constructing the Heroic / P. E. Easterling -- 3. Tragic Filters for History: Euripides' Supplices and Sophocles' Philoctetes / A. M. Bowie -- 4. The Theatre Audience, the Demos, and the Suppliants of Aeschylus / Alan H. Sommerstein -- 5. Leading the Tragic Khoros: Tragic Prestige in the Democratic City / Peter Wilson -- 6. The Place and Status of Foreigners in Athenian Tragedy / Pierre Vidal-Naquet -- 7. Between Public and Private: Tragedy and Athenian Experience of Rhetoric / Stephen Halliwell -- 8. Gods Cruel and Kind: Tragic and Civic Theology / Robert Parker -- 9. Tragedy and Religion: Constructs and Readings / Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood -- 10. The Ecstasy and the Tragedy: Varieties of Religious Experience in Art, Drama, and Society / Robin Osborne -- 11. Conclusion / Christopher Pelling.
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| Abstract
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The tragic theatre was no mere diversion for a fifth-century Athenian: it was a focal part of the experience of being a citizen. Tragedy explores fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central source for the reconstruction and analysis of the Athenian thought-world. Yet it is also a peculiarly delicate source to use, and the combination of tragic with other material often poses particular problems to the historian. This collection of eleven papers investigates the methods and pitfalls of using tragedy to illuminate fifth-century thought, culture, and society. In the concluding essay Christopher Pelling summarizes two important themes of the book: the problems of using tragedy as evidence; and the light tragedy can shed on civic ideology.
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Greek drama (Tragedy)-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc.
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Historicism.
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Literature and history-- Greece.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Athens (Greece), Historiography.
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Greece, History, To 146 B.C., Historiography.
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| LC Classification
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PA3131.G594 1997
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| Added Entry
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Pelling, C. B. R.
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