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838922
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Hanink, Johanna,1982-
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Lycurgan Athens and the making of classical tragedy /\ Johanna Hanink.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2014.
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| Series Statement
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[Cambridge classical studies]
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1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages)
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1107449588
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: 1316004724
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: 131600922X
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: 9781107449589
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: 9781316004722
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: 9781316009222
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1107062020
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9781107062023
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9781107697508
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: through the Lycurgan looking glass -- Part I. Classical tragedy and the Lycurgan programme. 1. Civic poetry in Lycurgus' Against Leocrates ; 2. Scripts and statues, or a law of Lycurgus' own ; 3. Site of change, site of memory: the 'Lycurgan' Theatre of Dionysus -- Part II. Reading the theatrical heritage. 4. Courtroom drama: Aeschines and Demosthenes ; 5. Classical tragedy and its comic lovers ; 6. Aristotle and the theatre of Athens -- Epilogue: classical tragedy in the age of Macedon.
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"Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during the 'Lycurgan Era' (338-322 BC), a number of measures were taken in Athens to affirm to the Greek world that the achievement of tragedy was owed to the unique character of the city. By means of rhetoric, architecture, inscriptions, statues, archives and even legislation, the 'classical' tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides) and their plays came to be presented as both the products and vital embodiments of an idealised Athenian past. This study marks the first account of Athens' invention of its own theatrical heritage and sheds new light upon the interaction between the city's literary and political history"--
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Lycurgus,approximately 390 B.C.-approximately 324 B.C.
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Lycurgus,approximately 390 B.C.-approximately 324 B.C.
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Greek drama (Tragedy)-- History and criticism.
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Literature and society-- Greece-- Athens.
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Tragedy.
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Civilization.
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Drama
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DRAMA-- Ancient, Classical Medieval.
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Greek drama (Tragedy)
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Griechisch
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HISTORY-- Ancient-- General.
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Literature and society.
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Rezeption
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Tragedy.
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Athens (Greece), History.
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Greece, Civilization, To 146 B.C.
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Athen
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Greece, Athens.
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Greece.
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| Dewey Classification
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882/.0109162
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| LC Classification
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DF285.H36 2014eb
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| NLM classification
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HIS002000bisacsh
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