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Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily

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Author: Kathryn G. Bosher, Northwestern University, Illinois
Editors:
Edith Hall, King's College London
Clemente Marconi, New York University

Date Published: March 2022
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108725651

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Studies of ancient theater have traditionally taken Athens as their creative center. In this book, however, the lens is widened to examine the origins and development of ancient drama, and particularly comedy, within a Sicilian and southern Italian context. Each chapter explores a different category of theatrical evidence, from the literary (fragments of Epicharmus and cult traditions) to the artistic (phylax vases) and the archaeological (theater buildings). Kathryn G. Bosher argues that, unlike in classical Athens, the golden days of theatrical production on Sicily coincided with the rule of tyrants, rather than with democratic interludes. Moreover, this was not accidental, but plays and the theater were an integral part of the tyrants' propaganda system. The volume will appeal widely to classicists and to theater historians.
- · Looks beyond Athens to Sicily and southern Italy, giving a new and more holistic view of the origins and development of theater in antiquity · Discusses the different categories of literary, artistic and archaeological evidence · Explores the relationship between tyranny and theater on Sicily
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Product details
- Date Published: March 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108725651
- length: 247 pages
- dimensions: 245 x 170 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.432kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus. 2 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Out of the shadows: Epicharmus and early performance in Syracuse
2. Cult and circumstance
3. Politics and propaganda
4. Taking theater home: images of comedy and tragedy on vases
5. Drama in public: stone theaters in the west
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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Author
Kathryn G. Bosher, Northwestern University, Illinois
Kathryn G.. Bosher was Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at Northwestern University until her death in 2013. She was editor of Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy (Cambridge, 2012) and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (2015).
Editors
Edith Hall, King's College London
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College London.
Clemente Marconi, New York University
Clemente Marconi is James R. McCredie Professor of Greek Art and Archaeology at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Prepared for publication by
LaDale Winling, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University