Clifford Ashby
Biographic Data
| ID | 2298797 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clifford Ashby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clifford |
| FAMILY NAME | Ashby |
| SIGNATURE | ASHBY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Classical Greek Theatre: New Views of an Old Subject
Archaeological and written sources relating to classical Greek theatre are diverse, scattered, and disconnected. Clifford Ashby's own (and memorable) fieldwork led him to more than one hundred theatre sites in Greece, southern Italy, Sicily, and Albania and as far into modern Turkey as Hellenic civilization had penetrated. From this extensive research, he draws a number of novel revisionist conclusions on the nature of classical theatre architect…
Classical Greek Theatre: New Views of an Old Subject
Where was the Altar
After centuries of study, an untold number of scholars have agreed that the City Dionysia of fifth-century Athens involved an animal sacrifice to the god Dionysos, and that this event took place in the theatre before the beginning of the play competition. The usual assumption has been that this sacrifice was offered upon an altar situated at the exact center of a circular orchestra. This placement fits well with the theory that tragedy grew from …
The Case for the Rectangular/Trapezoidal Orchestra
In 1947, Carlo Anti published Teatri Greci Arcaici da Minosse a Pericle . In this book, he formulated what one reviewer termed ‘the dogma of the originally rectangular orchestra’. This directly contradicted over a century of research which had concluded that Greek performance areas began with a completely circular dancing place and gradually changed to an arrangement which used a partial circle backed by a scene house. Over a hundred part-circula…
Alla Nazimova and the advent of the new acting in America
Classical Greek Theatre: New Views of an Old Subject
Archaeological and written sources relating to classical Greek theatre are diverse, scattered, and disconnected. Clifford Ashby's own (and memorable) fieldwork led him to more than one hundred theatre sites in Greece, southern Italy, Sicily, and Albania and as far into modern Turkey as Hellenic civilization had penetrated. From this extensive research, he draws a number of novel revisionist conclusions on the nature of classical theatre architect…
The Case for the Rectangular/Trapezoidal Orchestra
In 1947, Carlo Anti published Teatri Greci Arcaici da Minosse a Pericle . In this book, he formulated what one reviewer termed ‘the dogma of the originally rectangular orchestra’. This directly contradicted over a century of research which had concluded that Greek performance areas began with a completely circular dancing place and gradually changed to an arrangement which used a partial circle backed by a scene house. Over a hundred part-circula…
Alla Nazimova and the advent of the new acting in America
The Case for the Rectangular/Trapezoidal Orchestra
In 1947, Carlo Anti published Teatri Greci Arcaici da Minosse a Pericle . In this book, he formulated what one reviewer termed ‘the dogma of the originally rectangular orchestra’. This directly contradicted over a century of research which had concluded that Greek performance areas began with a completely circular dancing place and gradually changed to an arrangement which used a partial circle backed by a scene house. Over a hundred part-circula…
Where was the Altar
After centuries of study, an untold number of scholars have agreed that the City Dionysia of fifth-century Athens involved an animal sacrifice to the god Dionysos, and that this event took place in the theatre before the beginning of the play competition. The usual assumption has been that this sacrifice was offered upon an altar situated at the exact center of a circular orchestra. This placement fits well with the theory that tragedy grew from …
Classical Greek Theatre: New Views of an Old Subject
Classical Greek Theatre: New Views of an Old Subject
Archaeological and written sources relating to classical Greek theatre are diverse, scattered, and disconnected. Clifford Ashby's own (and memorable) fieldwork led him to more than one hundred theatre sites in Greece, southern Italy, Sicily, and Albania and as far into modern Turkey as Hellenic civilization had penetrated. From this extensive research, he draws a number of novel revisionist conclusions on the nature of classical theatre architect…
Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (3 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)