A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama

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<p>This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC.</p><ul><li>Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama tragedy, comedy, and satyr-drama</li><li>Surveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on lost playwrights</li><li>Examines contextual issues such as the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theater; dramas relationship with the worship of Dionysos; political dimensions of drama; and how to read and watch Greek drama</li><li>Includes single-page synopses of every surviving ancient Greek play</li></ul>

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<p><b>Ian C. Storey</b> is Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Trent University, Canada. The author of<i>Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy</i> (2003),<i>Euripides Suppliant Women</i> (2008), and<i>The Fragments of Old Comedy</i> (2011), he has published numerous papers on Euripides, Old Comedy, and the fiction of C. S. Lewis.</p><p><b>Arlene Allan</b> is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics at Otago University, New Zealand, where she teaches ancient Greek literature and mythology, as well as ancient Greek and Latin.</p>

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