GUIDE
TO GREEK DRAMA
City-State
Press
328 pages (with index),
non-fiction, paperback, published May 2001,
available on order from Amazon online and any bookstore.
ISBN 0-9709265-2-9 Price:
$ 19.95
Storylines, highlights,
and deeper meanings of all 44 surviving tragedies and comedies of Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.
Format:
biographical & historical background information for each playwright;
individual play begins with an excerpt from the dialogue on the title
page, Dramatis Personae, the Essay on the play, then a Concluding Comment,
featuring an anecdote or other item of interest.
Imparts
information on various subjects touching the plays: the plague (quoting
from the first and best documentary account to come down to us on the
nightmarish epidemic – the account of Thucydides); city-states
Sparta and Athens; the Persian and Peloponnesian wars; Greek mythology
and the Greek theatre; women’s rights advocacy by Aeschylus and
Euripides; Athens’ participatory democracy; ethics and idealism
as opposed to materialism; the earliest utopias, etc.
Note: GUIDE TO
GREEK DRAMA is both a reference book and a work intended for general
reading to introduce all of these ancient Athenian plays in a reader-friendly
manner.
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