Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic texts are
(re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description. Topics treated include the interaction of comedy and dithyramb with tragedy; vase painting and tragedy;
representations of Dionysus, of Tragoedia, and of Nike; Homer, Aeschylus, Philostratus, and Longus; choral lyric and ritual performance, choral victories, and the staging of choruses on the modern stage. The common focus of all the essays is an engagement with and response to the unique scholarly voice of Froma Zeitlin.
Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic texts are
(re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description. Topics treated include the interaction of comedy and dithyramb with tragedy; vase painting and tragedy;
representations of Dionysus, of Tragoedia, and of Nike; Homer, Aeschylus, Philostratus, and Longus; choral lyric and ritual performance, choral victories, and the staging of choruses on the modern stage. The common focus of all the essays is an engagement with and response to the unique scholarly voice of Froma Zeitlin.
Ruth Padel: The Red-Gold Border
I. Visualizing Tragedy
Laura Slatkin: Notes on Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad
Leslie Kurke: Visualizing the Choral: Epichoric Poetry, Ritual, and
Elite Negotiation in Fifth-Century Thebes
Richard Martin: Outer Limits, Choral Space
II. Drama on Drama
Simon Goldhill: What's in a Wall?
Pietro Pucci: Euripides and Aristophanes: What Does Tragedy
Teach?
III. Drama and Visualization: The Images of Tragedy and Myth
Francois Lissarrague: Looking at Shield Devices: Tragedy and Vase
Painting
Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux: The Invention of the Erinyes
Oliver Taplin: A New Pair of Pairs: Tragic Witnesses in Western
Greek Vase-Painting
Luca Giuliani and Glenn W. Most: Medea in Eleusis, in Princeton
IV. Visualizing Drama: The Divinities of Tragedy and Comedy
Edith Hall: Tragedy Personified
Peter Wilson: Nike's Cosmetics: Dramatic Victory, the End of
Comedy, and Beyond
John Henderson: Everything to do with Dionysus? (Medelhavsmuseet,
Stockholm, inv. MM 1962:7/ABV 374 no. 197)
V. The History of Tragic Vision
Ewen Bowie: Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy
Jas Elsner: Philostratus Visualizes the Tragic: Some Ecphrastic and
Pictorial Receptions of Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era
Helene P. Foley: Envisioning the Tragic Chorus on the Modern
Stage
V. Coda
Jean-Pierre Vernant: Rencontre avec Froma
Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Presence de Froma Zeitlin
Chris Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University. Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.
Froma Zeitlin is one of the most influential contemporary
classicists, and this all-star volume is a fitting tribute to her
scholarship
*Luigi Battezzato, Bryn Mawr Classical Review31/10/2012*
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