Lost Dramas Of Classical Athens
Greek Tragic Fragments
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
272 pages
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9-1/2 x 6-2/5
This is the first substantial study of Greek tragedies known to us only from small fragmentary remnants that have survived. The book discusses a variety of Greek tragic fragments from all three of the famous Athenian tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. The recent publication of translations of some of these fragments (Sophocles in the Loeb series, and Euripides in the Aris and Phillips series) means that the fragments are now more readily available than ever for study.
The large number of extant fragments of ancient Greek tragedy can tell us enormous amounts about that genre and about the society which produced it. Papyrus finds over the last hundred years have drastically altered and supplemented our knowledge of ancient Greek tragedy; the book is at the cutting-edge of research in this field.
Contents
1. Introduction, James Robson, Open University
2. Fragments and their Collectors, Rudolf Kassel, University of Cologne
(translated by David & Hazel Harvey)
2a. Tragic Thrausmatology: the Study of the Fragments of Greek Tragedy in the 19th and 20th Centuries, David Harvey, University of Exeter
3. Euripidean Fragmentary Plays: the Nature of Sources and their Effect on Reconstruction , Christopher Collard, University of Swansea
4. Lycians in the Cares of Aeschylus, Anthony Keen, Open University
5. Death and Wedding in Aeschylus’ Niobe, Richard Seaford, University of Exeter
6. Spectral Traces: Ghosts in Tragic Fragments, Ruth Bardel, Somerville College Oxford
7. From Treacherous Wives to Murderous Mothers: Filicide in Tragic Fragments, Fiona McHardy, University of Reading
8. Aristophanes on how to write Tragedy: What You Wear is What You Are, James Robson, Open University
9. Tragic Fragments, Greek Philosophers & the Fragmented Self, Christopher Gill, University of Exeter
10. Hypsipyle: a Version for the Stage, David Wiles, Royal Holloway University of London
11. Bibliography, (compiled by Fiona McHardy)
"Davis’s book is a job well and succinctly done." The Classical Review
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