The Function of the Ekkyklema in Greek Theatre: The Sculptural Display of Murdered Victims and the Success of Greek Tragedy for the State - Rilegato

Eis, Joel D.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0773435271 ISBN 13: 9780773435278

Casa editrice: Edwin Mellen Pr, 2014

Riassunto

This is a new take on the topic with considerable new scholarship about how the ekkyklema worked semiotically, dramaturgically and politically within Greek tragedy. In this fascinating and well-documented cultural study the author explores the proposition that the success of Greek tragedy was connected to the pre-mediated use of religious tropes in the drama, thus triggering profoundly ancient and effective traditional loyalties. Specifically the book lays out a well-documented argument that these devices, within both the form and content of the drama, were encouraged - if not required - for propagandistic purposes by the sponsors of the dramatic contests held in Athens as part of the Festival Dionysiad. This work explores the connections to the very earliest aspects of Dionysic worship and borrowed cultural features and builds these into the construction we know as the Greek Tragedy. Several important scholars note that this book explores the workings of this standard stage device, apparently used in a least one third of the extant plays, in more depth than any previously study ever undertaken.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0773435271
• ISBN 13: 9780773435278
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 333