Alexandra Hardwick

Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama

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Produktbeschreibung

Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how off-stage groups in fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy influence and respond to events on stage, and how characters interact with these groups. Alexandra Hardwick argues that Athenian drama engages with early ideas of group psychology, providing ways to explore collective emotion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780198887225
• ISBN-10: 0198887221
• Artikelnr.: 69191854

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Hardwick is a Stipendiary Lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she teaches Greek literature, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where she teaches Greek and Latin languages. She completed her doctoral degree at Oxford in 2021. Her research applies ideas from early modern and contemporary social science to ancient Greek texts, especially depictions of group emotion and decision-making in drama, historiography, and hexameter poetry from Homer to the imperial period.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Motifs of Group Psychology in Classical Greek Prose
2: Collective Political Decision-Making in Tragedy
3: Collective Political Decision-Making in Aristophanes
4: Off-Stage Populations
5: 'Political' Armies in Tragedy
6: Female Groups
7: Conclusions