Format:
Online-Ressource (336 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107004221
Content:
Reconstructs the ancient afterlife of Menander by focusing on three contexts of reception: public theatre, private entertainment and schools
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Canonizing Menander in Athens, Alexandria and Rome; Setting the stage: theatres and dramatists in the fourth and early third centuries BC; The politics of the Greek comic tradition; Foreign poets, later comedy and politics; The politics of Menander and his plays; The Peripatetic school, comedy and Menander; From Athens to Alexandria and Rome: Menander between scholars and actors; Back to Athens: Menander in the Theatre of Dionysus; 2 Menander in public theatres
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Menander and old plays in Athens and in Greek Hellenistic theatresGreek poets in the Roman palliatae; The Greek background to Roman 'play-spoiling' 1: excerpted plays and dramas set to music; The Greek background to Roman 'play-spoiling' 2: the Greek 'revisions'; Menander and New Comedy in public theatres under the Empire; Euripides, Menander and 'common' Greek; Menander and comedy writing in antiquity; 3 Menander at dinner parties; Reproducing Menander in Athens and beyond; The Menander portraits and their display contexts
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The iconographic tradition of Menander's comedies and its interpretative problemsArchetypes and iconographic corruption; Guests and Greek drama at dinner parties; Actors at dinner parties: who they were, where they were and what they did; Texts and images; Drama, houses and identity: Menander's comedy as a cultural symbol; 4 Menander in schools; Menander and primary teachers; Menander, grammarians and rhetors; Plays and summaries; Declaiming with Menander; Rhetors, orators and performance between Greece and Rome; Stages and schools, actors and students
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Describing and illustrating performance for studentsMenander, moralism and the conservative stamp of ancient education; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Roman palliatae and their Greek models; Appendix 2 Paintings and mosaics illustrating New Comedy; Scenes from public buildings (1); Scenes from tombs (1); Scenes from triclinia (14 or 15); Scenes from reception areas (10 or 11); Scenes from porticos, atria and related areas such as vestibulum, tablinum and ala (13 or 15); Scenes from private domestic areas (1); Scenes from unidentified domestic areas (9); Scenes from unidentified buildings (5 or 6)
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Scenes of unknown provenance (10)Appendix 3 Paintings and mosaics illustrating tragedy; Scenes from tombs (2); Scenes from triclinia (3 or 4); Scenes from reception areas (6); Scenes from porticoes, atria and related areas such as vestibulum, tablinum and ala (4 or 8); Scenes from private domestic areas (1); Scenes from unidentified domestic areas (1); Scenes from unidentified buildings (1); Scenes of unknown provenance (25?); Appendix 4 Menander papyri; Aspis (3 or 5); Dis Exapaton (1 or 4); Dyskolos (8); Encheiridion (1); Epitrepontes (13 or 14); Georgos (4 or 5); Heros (1)
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Karkhedonios (1 or 2)
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107334694
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107004221
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Menander in Antiquity : The Contexts of Reception
Language:
English
Keywords:
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