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| Named Person: | Aristophanes.; Aristophane.; Aristophane (0445?-0386? av. J.-C.).; 0445?-0386? av J -C Aristophane; Dionysos, (divinité grecque) |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ismene Lada-Richards |
| ISBN: | 0198149816 9780198149811 |
| OCLC Number: | 39157717 |
| Description: | xxiv, 387 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. 'Dionysiac' and 'Heraclean' in the Prologue of the Frogs -- 2. 'Separation', 'Limen', 'Aggregation': The Frogs as a 'Rite of Passage' -- 3. The God of Wine and the Frogs -- 4. Initiation through Acting -- 5. Dionysus, the Poets, and the Polis -- 6. Aeschylus: A 'Dionysiac' Poet? -- 7. Dionysus 'Returns' to Heracles -- 8. Dionysus the Civic Viewer -- 9. Dionysus, Comedy, and Tragedy -- App. Ritual Disguise in the Greek World -- Index of Frogs Passages Discussed. |
| Responsibility: | Ismene Lada-Richards. |
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Abstract:
The key question that is explored is how membership in Greek fifth-century society would have shaped understanding of the play, with particular emphasis on the persona of Dionysus who, as the author argues, should not be viewed merely as a stock comic character but as inseparable from the complex, paradoxical figure of his mythical and ritual counterpart. In its combination of sophistication and complexity with clarity and elegance of style, the book should be of interest to the scholar as well as the student of Greek drama and culture, and its insights should appeal to anyone interested in the manifold ways that theatre, of any period and culture, remoulds the ritual sequences of the social frame to which it belongs.
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