A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama

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A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama is written by Ian C. Storey and published by John Wiley & Sons. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1118455126 (ISBN 10) and 9781118455128 (ISBN 13).

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. Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama – tragedy, comedy, and satyr-drama Surveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on ‘lost’ playwrights Examines contextual issues such as the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theater; drama’s relationship with the worship of Dionysos; political dimensions of drama; and how to read and watch Greek drama Includes single-page synopses of every surviving ancient Greek play