C. Kraus, S. Goldhill, H. P. Foley, J. Elsner (dir.), Visualizing the Tragic. Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature

Chris Kraus, Simon Goldhill, Helene P. Foley, Jas Elsner (ed.), Visualizing the Tragic. Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature. Essays in Honour of Froma Zeitlin, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.  xxii, 475 pages ; ills. 36.    

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Recension par Luigi Battezzato (Università del Piemonte Orientale) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.05.47.

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Présentation de l'éditeur:

Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of essays by an international group of distinguished scholars the particular point of reference is the visual, that is, the myriad ways in which tragic texts are (re)interpreted, (re)appropriated, and (re)visualized through verbal and artistic description. Topics treated include the interaction of comedy and dithyramb with tragedy; vase painting and tragedy; representations of Dionysus, of Tragoedia, and of Nike; Homer, Aeschylus, Philostratus, and Longus; choral lyric and ritual performance, choral victories, and the staging of choruses on the modern stage. The common focus of all the essays is an engagement with and response to the unique scholarly voice of Froma Zeitlin.

Chris Kraus is Professor of Classics at Yale University. Simon Goldhill is Professor of Greek at Cambridge University. Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Jas Elsner is Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University.

Table des matières:

Notes on Contributors xiii Illustrations xviii Editors Introduction 1 I.Visualizing Tragedy from Elsewhere 1.Notes on Tragic Visualizing in the Iliad 19 Laura Slatkin 2.Outer Limits, Choral Space 35 Richard P. Martin 3.Visualizing the Choral: Epichoric Poetry, Ritual, and Elite Negotiation in FifthCentury Thebes 63 Leslie Kurke II.Drama on Drama 4.Euripides and Aristophanes: What does Tragedy Teach? 105 Pietro Pucci 5.Whats in a Wall? 126 Simon Goldhill III.Drama and Visualization: The Images of Tragedy and Myth 6.Looking at Shield Devices: Tragedy and Vase Painting 151 Franois Lissarrague 7.The Invention of the Erinyes 165 Franoise FrontisiDucroux 8.A New Pair of Pairs: Tragic Witnesses in Western Greek Vase Painting? 177 Oliver Taplin 9.Medea in Eleusis, in Princeton 197 Luca Giuliani and Glenn W. Most IV.Visualizing Drama: The Divinities of Tragedy and Comedy 10.Tragedy Personified 221 Edith Hall 11.Niks Cosmetics: Dramatic Victory, the End of Comedy, and Beyond 257 Peter Wilson 12.Everything to do with Dionysus? (Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, inv. MM 1962:7 ABV 374 no. 197) 288 John Henderson V.The History of Tragic Vision 13.Philostratus Visualizes the Tragic: Some Ecphrastic and Pictorial Receptions of Greek Tragedy in the Roman Era 309 Jas Elsner 14.Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy 338 Ewen Bowie 15.Envisioning the Tragic Chorus on the Modern Stage 353 Helene P. Foley VI.Coda 16.Rencontre avec Froma 373 Jean-Pierre Vernant 17.Présence de Froma Zeitlin 380 Pierre Vidal-Naquet References 390 Index Locorum General Index