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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.
As Billings notes vis-à-vis the post-1790s reception of Attic tragedy, “The belief that Greek tragedy was fundamentally about political events transformed the early modern trope of history-as-tragedy into the modern notion of tragedy as a meaningful representation of historical process.”
16 de mar. de 2013 · Greek tragedy was a popular and influential form of drama performed in theatres across ancient Greece from the late 6th century BCE. The most famous playwrights of the genre were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides and many of their works were still performed centuries after their initial premiere.
- Mark Cartwright
The crucial events that define the world of Attic tragedy are the revolution of 508–507 BCE that established the constitution of Cleisthenes; the battle of Marathon in 490 BCE; the Greek-Persian War of 480–479 BCE and the subsequent formation of the Delian League; the reforms of Ephialtes c.
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.
13 de jun. de 2021 · 13 June 2021. Cite. Permissions. Share. Abstract. This chapter examines Didymus’ studies on Greek tragedy, in particular on Sophocles and Ion of Chios. It demonstrates Didymus’ methods of exegesis and his use of other exegetical corpora. It explains the thinking behind some of his choices and preferences, including the mistakes.
27 de jul. de 2011 · Plut. Nic. 29. 3–5. On the diffusion of interest in tragedy in the Greek West see Taplin, Comic angels (see n. 8 above) 21–29, esp. 27: ‘The vases confirm that Athenian tragedy was part of life in fourth‐century Megale Hellas’.
