Author: Dobrov, Gregory; Author: Sobel, Mechal
Paperback; Notes, Bibliography, Index
448 pages
Published: December 1997
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807846457

Thirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production. At once a study of classical Greek literature and an analysis of cultural production, this collection reveals how for two centuries Athens itself was transformed, staged as comedy, and ultimately shaped by contemporary material, social, and ideological forces. 448 pp.The 13 essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry in to the urban contexts of literary productions. They examine how the polis - a place, a political entity - was enacted on stage from the fifth century BC to the fourth.