Tragedy modern Scholarship

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  • Tragedy modern scholarship
    • ancient audience
      • Goldhill
        • “The theatre was a space in which all the citizens were actors – as the city itself and its leading citizens were put on display.”
        • “It is often said that slaves definitely could attend the Dionysia
      • Higgins
        • The dramatization of stories from a shared heritage helped to nurture and preserve a cultural identity through times of hardship and war
    • performance
      • Taplin
        • The Chorus act as an 'emotional bridge' between the audience and the narrator,
      • Cartledge
        • tragedians’ exploitation of technical legal language and ideas underlines the affinity between the theatre and the courts
    • Oedipus the King
      • Garvie
        • someone of high reputation and prosperity who falls into misfortune, not because he is wicked, but because of some mistake
        • Oedipus is ignorant but determined to know, whereas Tiresias knows the truth but is determined to suppress it
        • it is the minor characters whose behaviour is more attractive than the hero’s
      • Fagles
        • As so often in Sophocles, it is the minor characters whose behaviour is more attractive than the hero’s.
    • drama as a means of worship
      • Easterling
        • “the plays composed for competition at the drama festivals always took their subjects from a wider range of myths than just stories about Dionysus.”
      • Goldhill
        • “Dionysus’ role as a god of subversion was essential to Tragedy”
      • Higgins
        • “To attend the theatre was a religious duty and the responsibility of all pious citizens.”
      • Henrich
        • “choral dancing in ancient Greek culture always constitutes a form of ritual performance.”
    • Bacchae
      • Morwood
        • She is degraded by what she carries since such treatment of a human being is non-Greek in its barbarism
      • Wyles
        • their ecstatic joy is chilling, while heightening the pathos for the circumstances of Pentheus’ destruction
      • Stuttard
        • Bacchae is one of Euripides’ most disturbing plays

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