DITHYRAMB TRAGEDY AND COMEDY

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1927

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Year of publication

1927

Author

Pickard-Cambridge, Sir Arthur W.

Publishers

Oxford Clarendon Press

Edition

First Edition

Keyword

Classical Studies, Greek Literature

Cover description

Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Binding description

Hardcover

First edition

Yes

Description

Upper corners a bit bumped. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Small Corrections done in ink to a few pages. DJ is tattered and has been crudely repaired with tape. Some tears and chipping to DJ. DJ is price-clipped. ; Original 1927 Edition ; 346 pages; One of the major scholars of the 1920s and 30s concerned with the origins of Greek drama, Sir Arthur Pickard-Cambridge focused in particular on the evidence derived from archaeological finds and papyri. He describes this history of the earliest stages of Greek drama as "a dispassionate attempt to ascertain historical truth or probability by methods as logical as the subject permits. "The study begins by bringing together what was known of the dithyramb, and argues against Aristotle's statement that tragedy originated from the leaders of the dithyramb, and against the theory put forward by Sir William Ridgeway that it originated in performances at the tombs of dead heroes.