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The Tragic Theatre Was No Mere Diversion For A Fifth-century Athenian: It Was A Focal Part Of The Experience Of Being A Citizen. Tragedy Explores Fundamental Issues Of Religion, Of Ethics, Of Civic Ideology, And We Should Expect It To Be A Central Source For The Reconstruction And Analysis Of The Athenian Thought-world. Yet It Is Also A Peculiarly Delicate Source To Use, And The Combination Of Tragic With Other Material Often Poses Particular Problems To The Historian. This Collection Of Eleven Papers Investigates The Methods And Pitfalls Of Using Tragedy To Illuminate Fifth-century Thought, Culture, And Society. In The Concluding Essay Christopher Pelling Summarizes Two Important Themes Of The Book: The Problems Of Using Tragedy As Evidence; And The Light Tragedy Can Shed On Civic Ideology. 1. Aeschylus' Persae And History / Christopher Pelling -- 2. Constructing The Heroic / P.e. Easterling -- 3. Tragic Filters For History: Euripides' Supplices And Sophocles' Philoctetes / A.m. Bowie -- 4. The Theatre Audience, The Demos, And The Suppliants Of Aeschylus / Alan H. Sommerstein -- 5. Leading The Tragic Khoros: Tragic Prestige In The Democratic City / Peter Wilson -- 6. The Place And

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Author

Christopher Pelling

Publisher

Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997.

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198149873

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14