The Birth and Transfiguration of Comedy in Athens

The Greek theater produced not only a single triumphal procession of Dionysus. The god of tragedy made his way into the Renaissance and the baroque period through the story of Orpheus, given new dramatic and musical life. This was the theme of my study in Diogenes, 1959: "The Birth and Rebirth of Tragedy." But the god of comedy was none other than the god of tragedy, and his path led, already in ancient times, to a particular dramatic genre: a genre which in its last, mild form became at the same time the vehicle of humanity, as the actual, great herald of Greek culture, and the model for European drama, inasfar as the latter did not purport to be a continuation of Greek tragedy

Art · Comedy · Literature · Classical Antiquity Studies · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History

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  Open Access•Christopher Birkbeck, Christopher Howard Birkbeck•Caderno CRH•2010

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