The relation between tragedy and song has a famous (to some, infamous) tradition in the study of Greek tragedy, for it is arguable that the modern phase of interpreting Greek tragedy opens with Nietzsche’s attempt to relate its origins to the power of music in his Birth of Tragedy, with its celebrated antinomy between the Dionysian chorus and the Apollonian principle of individuation. I am not going to follow Nietzsche’s approach (although like almost every modern student of tragedy I am indebted to it). Rather I am concerned with song as an aspect of tragedy’s historical continuity with earlier literary forms, especially epic poetry and the song-culture of early Greece (to use John Herington’s convenient term) from which the epic developed...
The art of storytelling is only a step away from the art of performance. Yet it took centuries to de...
Toward the end of The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche sketches the possibility of a rebirth of tragedy an...
The thesis is a contribution to the study of early Greek poetics. It surveys general terms for spea...
Charles Segal's most recent books include Interpreting Greek Tragedy (1986), Pindar's Mythmaking (19...
Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy' analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of ...
For the ancient Athenians, tragedy was a species of choral poetry, a spectacular new development wit...
The musical analysis of Greek tragedy has traditionally been limited to studies of meter and metathe...
Within Homer’s Iliad, Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns, there are a number of songs performed by inter...
This volume locates ancient tragic drama within a larger map of Greek lyric activity, stressing that...
In his Birth of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche famously developed a “dionysiac” theory of the tragic ch...
Classical Athenian tragedy is often thought of as a genre of poetry about death. Its plots center on...
By analysing how the audience interpreted the many voices of tragic performance, this chapter sugges...
There are several overlapping but distinct traditions whose medium is the modern Greek language and ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most influential and thoughtful philosopher in the 19th century, in ...
The Greek drama can be apprehended as an extended ritual, originating in the ceremonies of the Diony...
The art of storytelling is only a step away from the art of performance. Yet it took centuries to de...
Toward the end of The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche sketches the possibility of a rebirth of tragedy an...
The thesis is a contribution to the study of early Greek poetics. It surveys general terms for spea...
Charles Segal's most recent books include Interpreting Greek Tragedy (1986), Pindar's Mythmaking (19...
Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy' analyzes the multiple and varied evocations of ...
For the ancient Athenians, tragedy was a species of choral poetry, a spectacular new development wit...
The musical analysis of Greek tragedy has traditionally been limited to studies of meter and metathe...
Within Homer’s Iliad, Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns, there are a number of songs performed by inter...
This volume locates ancient tragic drama within a larger map of Greek lyric activity, stressing that...
In his Birth of Tragedy Friedrich Nietzsche famously developed a “dionysiac” theory of the tragic ch...
Classical Athenian tragedy is often thought of as a genre of poetry about death. Its plots center on...
By analysing how the audience interpreted the many voices of tragic performance, this chapter sugges...
There are several overlapping but distinct traditions whose medium is the modern Greek language and ...
Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the most influential and thoughtful philosopher in the 19th century, in ...
The Greek drama can be apprehended as an extended ritual, originating in the ceremonies of the Diony...
The art of storytelling is only a step away from the art of performance. Yet it took centuries to de...
Toward the end of The Birth of Tragedy Nietzsche sketches the possibility of a rebirth of tragedy an...
The thesis is a contribution to the study of early Greek poetics. It surveys general terms for spea...