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It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC, the works of which are sometimes called Attic tragedy. Greek tragedy is widely believed to be an extension of the ancient rites carried out in honor of Dionysus, and it heavily influenced the theatre of Ancient Rome and the Renaissance.
An Attic tragedy is a self-enclosed piece of heroic legend [Heldensage], poetically adapted in elevated style [in erhabenem Stile] for presentation by an Attic citizen chorus and two or three actors, and intended to be performed as part of public worship in the sanctuary of Dionysus.” 46
6 de mar. de 2017 · Despite initially acknowledging the deep gulf between his concern with the truth and the fanciful compositions of the poets, Thucydides is strongly influenced by the examples of Homer and Attic tragedy. Three areas of influence can be distinguished.
Froma Zeitlin the prominence of women in tragedy, assuming (as she also social function of this didactic kind for Athenian citizens. were citizens of Athens; yet many tragedies centre on. sufferings of female characters. What is the reason for this is not even clear whether any women were present in the.
Herodotus’ Use of Attic Tragedy in the Lydian Logos. In her book Herodotus in Context Rosalind Thomas sheds new light on Herodotus’ place in Greek intellectual history by emphasizing the common in-terests and argumentative techniques that he shares with contemporary students of ethnography, medicine, natural philosophy, and rhetoric.
27 de jul. de 2011 · A fragment from the Women at the Dionysia by the Middle Comedy poet Timocles (6 K.‐A., 8–19), in which a character discusses how watching the mythological plots of tragedy brings comfort and consolation for the spectators in their personal griefs, also points in this direction.
16 de abr. de 2014 · This chapter introduces the salient features of Greek representations of theomachy through readings of Homer’s Iliad and key works of Attic tragedy. The discussion of the Iliad focuses on Diomedes, Patroclus, and Achilles, the heroes at the centre of the epic’s three main theomachic episodes.
