Departing the Polis
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Anna Lamari
About this book
This is the first study of travel, or mobility, and the ancient Greek theatre. The essays collected here, by leading figures in the field of ancient drama, examine both historical travel (the actual mobility of audiences and performers who attended the dramatic contests) and the character of the traveller as it is imagined in the surviving texts and fragments of Greek tragedy, satyr play and comedy. This subject has relevance for two major areas of study: the historical context of theatrical performance and the performances themselves, most particularly the use or creation of dramatic space. And yet this volume also breaks new ground: we build on recent research that has emphasised the Panhellenic aspects of the context of Greek drama and, furthermore, show how this interconnected world is reflected in the plays themselves. In the process we argue that the postmodern ‘spatial turn’, as it has manifested in scholarship on ancient drama, has missed, almost completely, the key importance of movement within that space. This book reinserts travellers back into ancient dramatic space, as they move on distant journeys beyond the polis.
Author / Editor information
Anna Lamari, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Edmund Stewart, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.
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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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List of Maps and Figures
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Introduction: On Departing the Polis
1 - Part I: Theatrical Journeys and Travellers
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Travel to Athens’ Dionysia: Ἑλλὰς Ἑλλάδος and the Centripetal Politics of the Athenian Dionysia
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Travel beyond Athens: Pilgrims and Sanctuaries in Greek Tragedy
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An Archetypical Traveler: Strangers in Distress and Suppliants in Greek Tragedy
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Mapping the Cosmos: The Cosmological Imagination of Travelling in Aeschylus’ Persians and the Oresteia
107 - Part II: Travel and the Tragic
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Sophocles’ Triptolemos and other Tragic Globetrotters
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Travelling Through Nemea in Euripides’ Hypsipylē
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Euripides’ Melanippē Plays and the Politics of Travel
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The Voyage of Eternal Return: Extraordinary Travel in Aristophanes and Old Comedy
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Perceptions of Travel in Greek Comedy: Exploring some Examples from Middle Comedy
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The Importance of Overseas in Menander
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Abbreviations
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Bibliography
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List of Contributors
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General Index
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