T B L Webster
Biographic Data
| ID | 1048349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T B L Webster |
| GIVEN NAMES | T B L |
| FAMILY NAME | Webster |
| SIGNATURE | WEBSTER T B L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1929 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
An Introduction to Sophocles
Professor Webster was a well-known, prolific writer on the Greek theatre. For this second edition of An Introduction to Sophocles, originally published in 1969, he provided additions and corrections to a work that had proved its value since its first appearance in 1936. After a chapter on the life of Sophocles and the chronology of his plays, the book gives accounts of his thought, characters, plots, songs and style. This edition also incorporate…
Cunning Folk: Popular Magic in English History
Monuments illustrating new comedy
Potter and Patron in Classical Athens
Early Greek Warfare: Horsemen and Chariots in the Homeric and Archaic Ages
Sophocles. Philoctetes
Potter and Patron in Classical Athens
Athenian Culture and Society
Illustrations of Greek Drama
It is a weakness in our understanding of Hellenistic art that plausible accounts of stylistic development can be offered which lead to very diverse results. As regards painting, the author attempts to deduce from Pliny that realism and perspective had been perfected in early Hellenistic times; the difficulty here seems to be that the criteria used by the ancient art critics were crude, and Pliny's best sources perhaps gave out on him too soon. A …
The Greek Chorus
Sophocles, Philoctetes
The Tragedies of Euripides
The Tragedies of Euripides
Towards a Classification of Apulian Gnathia
Journal Article TOWARDS A CLASSIFICATION OF APULIAN GNATHIA Get access T. B. L. Webster T. B. L. Webster University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, December 1968, Pages 1–32, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1968.tb00059.x Published: 12 March 2010
La formazione spirituale di Menandro
The Art of Greece: The Age of Hellenism
A Note on the Date of Euripides' Aigeus
The Andromeda of Euripides
THE ANDROMEDA OF EURIPIDES Get access T. B. L. Webster T. B. L. Webster University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 12, Issue 1, December 1965, Pages 29–33, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1965.tb00017.x Published: 12 March 2010
Hellenistic Poetry and Art
Greek Vases in the Stanford Museum
Le théâtre grec et son décor
Cet article donne une esquisse de l'histoire du théâtre grec jusqu'à l'époque romaine. Les étapes qui y sont distinguées se résument ainsi : 1. le théâtre de Thespis quand on jouait devant le vieux temple de Dionysos, 2. le théâtre d'Eschyle, dont les traces sont assez exiguës, 3. le théâtre d'Euripide avec avant-scène en bois portant le décor et porte saillante, 4. le théâtre de Ménandre avec ailes, 5. le théâtre hellénistique avec proskenion et…
A Terracotta Head in The Metropolitan Museum
Greek Art and Literature 700-530 B.C: The Beginnings of Modern Civilization
Staging and scenery in the ancient Greek theatre
Greek Dramatic Monuments from the Athenian Agora and Pnyx
T. B. L. Webster, Greek Dramatic Monuments from the Athenian Agora and Pnyx, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1960), pp. 254-284
Monuments illustrating new comedy
Hellenistic Poetry and Art
South Italian Vases and Attic Drama
In The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens Dr. Pickard-Cambridge includes a most useful and convenient collection of south Italian vase-paintings which have been held to throw light on the stage-settings of Greek tragedy. He concludes that they give no evidence for Athens in the fifth century and in particular do not justify the assumption that interior scenes were played in a porch in front of the central door. The second conclusion is true, but some …
An Introduction to Sophocles
Professor Webster was a well-known, prolific writer on the Greek theatre. For this second edition of An Introduction to Sophocles, originally published in 1969, he provided additions and corrections to a work that had proved its value since its first appearance in 1936. After a chapter on the life of Sophocles and the chronology of his plays, the book gives accounts of his thought, characters, plots, songs and style. This edition also incorporate…
Potter and Patron in Classical Athens
Chronological Notes on Middle Comedy
My chief object in these notes is to provide evidence for tracing the ancestry of certain themes, situations, and characters which appear in New Comedy; I hope, however, that they may also be useful for the study of Middle Comedy itself. I am therefore chiefly concerned with the period from 400 b.c. to 320 b.c. , when Menander had begun to write; I have, however, given some dates after 320 which were necessary to complete my story, but I have lef…
Athenian Culture and Society
Art and Literature in Fourth Century Athens
Personification as a Mode of Greek Thought
Sophocles, Philoctetes
Homer and Attic Geometric Vases
Since Dr. Hamper's identification of epic scenes in eighth-century art twenty years ago opinion has been divided as to how far these can be accepted. To quote two recent opinions, Mr. G. S. Kirk ends his discussion of Hampe's identifications: ‘thus there is no Geometric representation which we can confidently describe as representing a definite scene from the heroic saga, let alone from epic as we know it’. Professor Kraiker, however, accepts the…
Towards a Classification of Apulian Gnathia
Journal Article TOWARDS A CLASSIFICATION OF APULIAN GNATHIA Get access T. B. L. Webster T. B. L. Webster University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 15, Issue 1, December 1968, Pages 1–32, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1968.tb00059.x Published: 12 March 2010
Greek Art and Literature, 530-400 B.C
A Note on the Date of Euripides' Aigeus
Greek Dramatic Monuments from the Athenian Agora and Pnyx
T. B. L. Webster, Greek Dramatic Monuments from the Athenian Agora and Pnyx, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1960), pp. 254-284
Greek comic costume: Its history and diffusion
Judging from repetitious appearances of her marital arms in the painted line-endings, the Psalter-Hours John Rylands Library Latin MS 117 probably belonged to Jeanne of Flanders (c.1272–1333), daughter of Count Robert III of Flanders and in 1288 second wife to Enguerrand IV of Coucy. Yet the line-endings also contain some 1,800 diminutive painted escutcheons, many of which refer to other members of the local nobility active during the 1280s. This…
An Introduction to Sophocles
Preparation and Motivation in Greek Tragedy
The Wilshere Collection at Pusey House in Oxford
This collection of miscellaneous objects of very varying date and provenance, though mostly of the early Christian period, was formed by the late Mr. C. Wilshere, and bequeathed by him to Pusey House, Oxford, where it was installed about three years ago, having been previously at its owner's house in Hertfordshire. It was formed by purchases made at various times and places, though chiefly in Rome. The present writer was invited by Dr. Darwell St…
Preparation and Motivation in Greek Tragedy
An Ionian Plastic Vase and a Bronze Figure of a Woman in the Manchester Museum
The head vase, which forms the subject of my first illustration (pl. XXIV, I), was found at Camirus in Rhodes, and has recently been presented to the Manchester Museum. It is the bust of a woman wearing a diadem on her head and a veil. The paint with which the vase was originally decorated has mostly disappeared, but traces of red can still be seen on the dress
An Introduction to Sophocles
Greek Theories of Art and Literature Down to 400 B.C
G reek art and literature follow parallel courses through the long period from Homer to Euripides. Homer and Euripides, Dipylon vases and the latest white lekythoi are as far apart from each other as it is possible for works in the same medium to be. The distance can only be explained by a similar change in the views of artists, writers, and their public
Greek Art and Literature, 530-400 B.C
South Italian Vases and Attic Drama
In The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens Dr. Pickard-Cambridge includes a most useful and convenient collection of south Italian vase-paintings which have been held to throw light on the stage-settings of Greek tragedy. He concludes that they give no evidence for Athens in the fifth century and in particular do not justify the assumption that interior scenes were played in a porch in front of the central door. The second conclusion is true, but some …
Political Interpretations in Greek Literature
Chronological Notes on Middle Comedy
My chief object in these notes is to provide evidence for tracing the ancestry of certain themes, situations, and characters which appear in New Comedy; I hope, however, that they may also be useful for the study of Middle Comedy itself. I am therefore chiefly concerned with the period from 400 b.c. to 320 b.c. , when Menander had begun to write; I have, however, given some dates after 320 which were necessary to complete my story, but I have lef…
Studies in Menander
Pylos Aa, Ab Tablets
PYLOS Aa, Ab Tablets Get access T. B. L. Webster T. B. L. Webster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 1954, Pages 11–12, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1954.tb00283.x Published: 12 March 2010
Additional Homeric Notes
Journal Article ADDITIONAL HOMERIC NOTES Get access T. B. L. Webster T. B. L. Webster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, December 1954, Pages 15–16, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1954.tb00285.x Published: 12 March 2010
Greek comic costume: Its history and diffusion
Judging from repetitious appearances of her marital arms in the painted line-endings, the Psalter-Hours John Rylands Library Latin MS 117 probably belonged to Jeanne of Flanders (c.1272–1333), daughter of Count Robert III of Flanders and in 1288 second wife to Enguerrand IV of Coucy. Yet the line-endings also contain some 1,800 diminutive painted escutcheons, many of which refer to other members of the local nobility active during the 1280s. This…
Personification as a Mode of Greek Thought
Recent Scholarship on Greek Tragedy
Greek tragedy is still acted in the original and in translations; it has inspired such modern drama as The Family Reunion and La Machine Infernale; in Norway and France Sophocles’ Antigone helped to give hope to the resistance. Greek tragedy was produced originally at a religious festival by a poet who was poet, musician, producer, and sometimes actor too. The plays were meant to be seen; they had staging and costumes, dancing, and dramatic techn…
The Costume of The Actors In Aristophanic Comedy
Professor Beare has attacked the position established by Alfred Körte in 1893 and accepted in large measure by Sir Arthur Pickard-Cambridge in Dithyramb , etc., and Festivals . The following reply is brief because I have dealt with the works of art at some length in Rylands Bulletin , xxxvi (1954), 563 f. and in a forthcoming number of Ephemeris Archaiologike . The statement of Aristotle ( Poet. , ch. 4). I have tried to show that various element…
Homer and Attic Geometric Vases
Since Dr. Hamper's identification of epic scenes in eighth-century art twenty years ago opinion has been divided as to how far these can be accepted. To quote two recent opinions, Mr. G. S. Kirk ends his discussion of Hampe's identifications: ‘thus there is no Geometric representation which we can confidently describe as representing a definite scene from the heroic saga, let alone from epic as we know it’. Professor Kraiker, however, accepts the…
Homer and the Mycenaean Tablets
Now that more than a year has elapsed since the publication of Dr Michael Ventris' brilliant discovery that the Mycenaean tablets inscribed in Linear B contained Greek, a preliminary answer may be given to the question of their bearing on the interpretation of Homer. My purpose here is to indicate where our 8th century Iliad and Odyssey agree with the tablets and where they differ
Mycenaean Records: A Review
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A Reply on Aristophanic Costume
In answer to Professor Beare's note, which he has generously shown me, I would make the following points: (1) I think it unlikely that Middle Comedy was more obscene than Old Comedy, and the Attic vases go back to about 420 B.C. (see my Greek Theatre Production , pp. 56 f., particularly 66, and Wiener Studien , lxix (1956), 110 f.)
Some Thoughts on the Pre-History of Greek Drama
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PRE-HISTORY OF GREEK DRAMA Get access T. B. L. Webster T. B. L. Webster University College London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 5, Issue 1, December 1958, Pages 43–48, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1958.tb00611.x Published: 12 March 2010
Die mykenische Vorgeschichte des griechischen Dramas
Art and Literature in Fourth Century Athens
Staging and scenery in the ancient Greek theatre
Greek Dramatic Monuments from the Athenian Agora and Pnyx
T. B. L. Webster, Greek Dramatic Monuments from the Athenian Agora and Pnyx, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1960), pp. 254-284
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