The visual code in Athenian tragic performing composition: between poetry and material staging

The tragical poets were used to composing both the verbal and the performing text. This article is going to examine the sources which deal with this item. Going through Platon’s Republic, Aristotle’s Poetics, some of Aristophane’s comedies and the ancient Scolia the author aims to reveal the tragical way of composing, in which the poets were involved both as writers and as metteur en scène