Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens

Comedy and Religion in Classical Athens

Author: Francisco Barrenechea

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-02

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1107191165

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Re-examines Aristophanes' engagement with Greek religion by studying his dramatization of traditional stories of religious experiences.


Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion

Theologies of Ancient Greek Religion

Author: Esther Eidinow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-08-03

Total Pages: 443

ISBN-13: 1316715213

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Studied for many years by scholars with Christianising assumptions, Greek religion has often been said to be quite unlike Christianity: a matter of particular actions (orthopraxy), rather than particular beliefs (orthodoxies). This volume dares to think that, both in and through religious practices and in and through religious thought and literature, the ancient Greeks engaged in a sustained conversation about the nature of the gods and how to represent and worship them. It excavates the attitudes towards the gods implicit in cult practice and analyses the beliefs about the gods embedded in such diverse texts and contexts as comedy, tragedy, rhetoric, philosophy, ancient Greek blood sacrifice, myth and other forms of storytelling. The result is a richer picture of the supernatural in ancient Greece, and a whole series of fresh questions about how views of and relations to the gods changed over time.


The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

Author: Michael Fontaine

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-04

Total Pages: 913

ISBN-13: 0199743541

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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to its end in Rome, from its Hellenistic to its Imperial receptions, no topic is neglected. The 41 essays offer cutting-edge guides through comedy's immense terrain.


Tragedy and Athenian Religion

Tragedy and Athenian Religion

Author: Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9780739104002

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Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexamination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion. Based on a reconstruction of the context in which tragedy was generated as a ritual performance during the festival of the City Dionysia, Sourvinou-Inwood shows that religious exploration had been crucial in the emergence of what developed into fifth-century Greek tragedy. A contextual analysis of the perceptions of fifth-century Athenians suggests that the ritual elements clustered in the tragedies of Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles provided a framework for the exploration of religious issues, in a context perceived to be part of a polis ritual. This reassessment of Athenian tragedy is based both on a reconstruction of the Dionysia and the various stages of its development and on a deep textual analysis of fifth-century tragedians. By examining the relationship between fifth-century tragedies and performative context, Tragedy and Athenian Religion presents a groundbreaking view of tragedy as a discourse that explored (among other topics) the problematic religious issues of the time and so ultimately strengthened Athenian religion even at a time of crisis in very complex ways-- rather than, as some simpler modern readings argue, challenging and attacking religion and the gods.


The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy

Author: Martin Revermann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-12

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 0521760283

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This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.


New Comedy

New Comedy

Author: Aristophanes

Publisher: Methuen Drama

Published: 1994-03-14

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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Contains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.


The Athenian Adonia in Context

The Athenian Adonia in Context

Author: Laurialan Reitzammer

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres

Published: 2016-05-11

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0299308200

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A fresh examination of a marginalized women's festival that influenced Athenian art, drama, philosophy, and public institutions.


Greek Religion

Greek Religion

Author: Walter Burkert

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780674362819

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A survey of the religious beliefs of ancient Greece covers sacrifices, libations, purification, gods, heroes, the priesthood, oracles, festivals, and the afterlife.


Performing Interpersonal Violence

Performing Interpersonal Violence

Author: Werner Riess

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-01-27

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 3110245604

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This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display a remarkable openness regarding the definition of violence. But in daily life, Athenians had to draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. They did so by enacting a discourse on violence in the performance of these genres, during which complex negotiations about the legitimacy of violence took place. Performances such as the staging of trials and comedies ritually defined the meaning of violence and its appropriate application. Speeches and curse tablets not only spoke about violence, but also exacted it in a mediated form, deriving its legitimate use from a democratic principle, the communal decision of the human jurors in the first case and the underworld gods in the second. Since discourse and reality were intertwined and the discourse was ritualized, actual violence might also have been partly ritualized. By still respecting the on-going desire to harm one’s enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens’ relative stability.