Reconstructing Satyr Drama

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9402001
AutoresAndreas P Antonopoulos (0009-0000-2418-1713, autor de correspondencia), Menelaos Christopulos
EditoresAndreas Antonopoulos, Ménélaos Christopoulos, George William Mallory Harrison
Año2021
Fecha de publicación2021-06-21
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaReconstructing Satyr Drama (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialDe Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/9783110725230
OpenAlexW4206994384
Open LibraryOL34764210M
ISBN9783110725230
GOOGLE_BOOK_ID4pIJzgEACAAJ
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6

The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention

Art · Drama · Literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Theater, Performance, and Music History