Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily(English, Hardcover, Bosher Kathryn G.)

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Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily(English, Hardcover, Bosher Kathryn G.) is written by Bosher Kathryn G. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108493874 (ISBN 10) and 9781108493871 (ISBN 13).

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.