Performance, Iconography, Reception

Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin

Martin Revermann and Peter Wilson

Engages with the performance of ancient comedy and tragedy
Deploys an interdisciplinary approach, interrogating both literature and material culture
Explores the reception of classical literature

Performance, Iconography, Reception

Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin

Martin Revermann and Peter Wilson

Description

Performance, Reception, Iconography assembles twenty-three papers from an international group of scholars who engage with, and develop, the seminal work of Oliver Taplin. Oliver Taplin has for over three decades been at the forefront of innovation in the study of Greek literature, and of the Greek theatre, tragic and comic, in particular. The studies in this volume centre on three key areas - the performance of Greek literature, the interactions between literature and the visual realm of iconography, and the reception and appropriation of Greek literature, and of Greek culture more widely, in subsequent historical periods.

Performance, Iconography, Reception

Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin

Martin Revermann and Peter Wilson

Introduction
Performance: Explorations
1. Generic Boundaries in Late Fifth-Century Athens, Helene Foley
2. Audience and Emotion in the Reception of Greek Drama, Ian Ruffell
3. Greek Middle-Brow Drama (Something to do with Aphrodite?), Mark Griffith
4. Costing the Dionysia, Peter Wilson
5. Nothing to do with Demeter? Something to do with Sicily! Theatre and Society in the Early Fifth-Century West, Barbara Kowalzig
Performance: Epic
6. The Odyssey as Performance Poetry, Oswyn Murray
7. Performance and Rivalry: Homer, Odysseus, and Hesiod, Adrian Kelly
8. Performing the Will of Zeus: The Dios boule and the Scope of Early Greek Epic, William Allan
Performance: Tragedy
9. Theatrical Furies: Thoughts on Eumenides, Pat Easterling
10. Aeschylus' Eumenides, Chronotopes, and the `Aetiological Mode', Martin Revermann
11. Star Choruses: Eleusis, Orphism, and New Musical Imagery and Dance, Eric Csapo
12. The Last Word: Ritual, Power, and Performance in Euripides' Hiketides, Athena Kavoulaki
13. Intimate Relations: Children, Childbearing, and Parentage on the Euripidean Stage, Froma I. Zeitlin
14. Character and Characterization in Greek Tragedy, Bernd Seidensticker
Performance: Comedy
15. Scenes at the Door in Aristophanic Comedy, Peter Brown
16. The Poetics of the Mask in Old Comedy, David Wiles
Performance: Iconography
17. Putting Performance into Focus, Robin Osborne
18. The Greek Gem: A Token of Recognition, Alfonso Moreno
19. Image and Representation in the Pottery of Magna Graecia, François Lissarague
Performance: Reception
20. Wagner's Greeks: The Politics of Hellenism, Simon Goldhill
21. Resurrecting Ancient Greece in Nazi German: The Oresteia as Part of the Olympic Games in 1936, Erika Fischer-Lichte
22. Can the Odyssey ever be Tragic? Historical Perspectives on the Theatrical Realization of Greek Epic, Edith Hall
23. An Oedipus for our Times? Yeats's Version of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, Fiona Macintosh

Performance, Iconography, Reception

Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin

Martin Revermann and Peter Wilson

Author Information

Martin Revermann is Associate Professor in Classics and Theatre Studies at the University of Toronto. Peter Wilson is William Ritchie Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney.

Contributors:

William Allan, University of Oxford
Peter Brown, University of Oxford
Eric Csapo, University of Sydney
Pat Easterling, University of Cambridge
Erika Fischer-Lichte, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Berlin
Helene Foley, Columbia University
Simon Goldhill, University of Cambridge
Mark Griffith, University of California at Berkeley
Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Athena Kavoulaki, University of Crete
Adrian Kelly, University of Oxford
Barbara Kowalzig, Royal Holloway, University of London
François Lissarague, Centre Louis Gernet, Paris
Fiona Macintosh, University of Oxford
Alfonso Moreno, University of Oxford
Oswyn Murray, University of Oxford
Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge
Martin Revermann, University of Toronto
Ian Ruffell, University of Glasgow
Bernd Seidensticker, Freie Universität Berlin
David Wiles, Royal Holloway, University of London
Peter Wilson, University of Sydney
Froma I. Zeitlin, Princeton University