Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy

Name: Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy
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ISBN: 9780521642477

ISBN-10: 0521642477

ISBN-13: 9780521642477

Edition: 1999

Authors: Simon Goldhill, Robin Osborne

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The ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens is dissussed in these new and especially commissioned essays.

Book details

List price: $159.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/13/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 430
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English




Programme notes




The Performance of Drama



Spreading the word through performance




The aulos in Athens




Actor's song in tragedy




The Drama of Performance



Performative aspects of the choral voice in Greek tragedy: civic identity in performance




Actors and voices: reading between the lines in Aeschines and Demosthenes Pat Easterling



Aristophanes: the performance of Utopia in the Ecclesiazusae




Rhetoric and Performance



The rhetoric of anti-rhetoric in Athenian oratory




Reading Homer from the rostrum: poems and laws in Aeschines' In Timarchum




Plato and the performance of dialogue




Ritual and State: Visuality and the Performance of Citizenship



Processional performance and the democratic polis




The spectacular and the obscure in Athenian religion




Inscribing performance




Publicity and performance: kalos inscriptions in Attic vase-painting