Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy |
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| Editor:
| Goldhill, Simon
Osborne, Robin |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-64247-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1999 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $135.00 |
Book Description:
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These new and specially commissioned essays from leading scholars discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. Drama, rhetoric, philosophy, literature and art are all discussed in an interdisciplinary frame to explore how the culture of democracy depends on performance.
These new and specially commissioned essays from leading scholars discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. Drama, rhetoric, philosophy, literature and art are all discussed in an interdisciplinary frame to explore how the culture of democracy depends on performance.