Performance, Reception, Iconography assembles twenty-three papers from an international group of scholars who engage with, and develop, the seminal work of Oliver Taplin. Oliver Taplin has for over three decades been at the forefront of innovation in the study of Greek literature, and of the Greek theatre, tragic and comic, in particular. The studies in this volume centre on three key areas - the performance of Greek literature, the interactions between literature and the visual realm of iconography, and the reception and appropriation of Greek literature, and of Greek culture more widely, in subsequent historical periods.
Author(s): Martin Revermann, Peter Wilson
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 560
Contents......Page 6
List of lllustrations......Page 9
List of Contributors......Page 13
Introduction......Page 18
PART I. PERFORMANCE: EXPLORATIONS......Page 30
1. Generic Boundaries in Late Fifth-Century Athens......Page 32
2. Audience and Emotion in the Reception of Greek Drama......Page 54
3. Greek Middlebrow Drama (Something to do with Aphrodite?)......Page 76
4. Costing the Dionysia......Page 105
5. Nothing to Do with Demeter? Something to Do with Sicily! Theatre and Society in the Early Fifth-Century West......Page 145
PART II. PERFORMANCE: EPIC......Page 176
6. The Odyssey as Performance Poetry......Page 178
7. Performance and Rivalry: Homer, Odysseus, and Hesiod......Page 194
8. Performing the Will of Zeus: The [omitted] and the Scope of Early Greek Epic......Page 221
PART III. PERFORMANCE: TRAGEDY......Page 234
9. Theatrical Furies: Thoughts on Eumenides......Page 236
10. Aeschylus' Eumenides, Chronotopes, and the 'Aetiological Mode'......Page 254
11. Star Choruses: Eleusis, Orphism, and New Musical Imagery and Dance......Page 279
12. The Last Word: Ritual, Power, and Performance in Euripides' Hiketides......Page 308
13. Intimate Relations: Children, Childbearing, and Parentage on the Euripidean Stage......Page 335
14. Character and Characterization in Greek Tragedy......Page 350
PART IV. PERFORMANCE: COMEDY......Page 364
15. Scenes at the Door in Aristophanic Comedy......Page 366
16. The Poetics of the Mask in Old Comedy......Page 391
PART V. PERFORMANCE: ICONOGRAPHY......Page 410
17. Putting Performance into Focus......Page 412
18. The Greek Gem: A Token of Recognition......Page 436
19. Image and Representation in the Pottery of Magna Graecia......Page 456
PART VI. PERFORMANCE: RECEPTION......Page 468
20. Wagner's Greeks: The Politics of Hellenism......Page 470
21. Resurrecting Ancient Greece in Nazi Germany––the Oresteia as Part of the Olympic Games in 1936......Page 498
22. Can the Odyssey Ever be Tragic? Historical Perspectives on the Theatrical Realization of Greek Epic......Page 516
23. An Oedipus for Our Times? Yeats's Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos......Page 541
List of Oliver Taplin's Publications......Page 565
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