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The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and beyond
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Bartłomiej Bednarek
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
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About this book
Lycurgus, the king of the Thracian tribe of the Edonians, is the hero of the first attested Greek myth about the resistance against the god Dionysus. According to many scholars, Lycurgus was worshipped as a god among the Thracians, Phrygians, and Syrians. His myth might have been used as a hieros logos in the initiations into the ‘Bacchic’ and ‘Orphic’ mysteries in Greece and Rome. This book focuses on Aeschylus’ tragic tetralogy Lycurgeia and Naevius’ tragedy Lycurgus, the two most important texts that shaped the tradition of the Lycurgus myth, and offers a new and, at times, radically different interpretation of these fragmentary plays and related cultural texts.
Author / Editor information
Bartłomiej Bednarek, Ph.D. (2015), is a post-doc fellow at the University of Warsaw. He has published books and articles on religion and mythology, literature and theatre, gender and sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome.
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eBook published on:
May 12, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9789004463035
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Main content:
252
eBook ISBN:
9789004463035
Keywords for this book
Tragedy; Satyr Drama; Theatre; Fragmentary Plays; Fragments; Mystery Cult; Dionysus; Thrace; Plautus; Mythography; Iconography; Vase Painting; Greek Poetry; Roman Poetry; Romanisation; Romanization
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars, students, and all readers interested in ancient Greek and Roman religion, theatre and literature.
