Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Some staining on partly bleached jacket, occasional pencil markings in text, otherwise very good. / Etwas angeschmutzter und teils verblichener Umschlag, vereinzelt Bleistiftanstreichungen im Text, sonst sehr gut. - Contents: 1. Programme notes, SIMON GOLDHILL -- I. The performance of drama -- 2. Spreading the word through performance, OLIVER TAPLIN -- 3. The aulos in Athens, PETER WILSON -- 4. Actor�s song in tragedy, EDITH HALL -- II. The drama of performance -- 5. Performative aspects of the choral voice in Greek tragedy: civic identity in performance, CLAUDE CALAME -- 6. Actors and voices: reading between the lines in Aeschines and Demosthenes., PAT EASTERLING -- 7. Aristophanes: the performance of utopia in the Ecclesiazousae, FROMA ZEITLIN -- III. Rhetoric and performance -- 8. The rhetoric of anti-rhetoric in Athenian oratory, JON HESK -- 9. Reading Homer from the rostrum: poems and laws in Aeschines� Against Timarchus, ANDREW FORD -- 10. Plato and the performance of dialogue, SITTA VON REDEN AND SIMON GOLDHILL -- IV. Ritual and state: visuality and the performance of citizenship -- 11. Processional performance and the democratic polis, ATHENA KAVOULAKI -- 12. The spectacular and the obscure in Athenian religion, MICHAEL H. JAMESON -- 13. Inscribing performance, ROBIN OSBORNE -- 14. Publicity and performance: kalos inscriptions in Attic vase-painting, FRAN�IS LISSARRAGUE. - These new and specially commissioned essays discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. From theatre to law-court to gymnasium to symposium, performance is a basic part of Athenian society; how do these different areas interrelate and inform the politics and culture of the democratic city? Drama, rhetoric, philosophy, literature and art are all discussed by leading scholars in this interdisciplinary volume. - Simon Golddhill s Reader in Greek Literature and Culture in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King�s College. He has published widely in Greek literature and culture. His books include Reading Greek Tragedy (1986), The Poet�s Voice: Essays on Poetics and Greek Literature (1991) and Foucault�s Virginity: Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality (1995). Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College. He has published widely in Greek history and archaeology. His books include Demos: The Discovery of Classical Attika (1985), Classical Landscape with Figures: the Ancient Greek City and its Countryside (1987), Greece in the Making 1200-479 (1996) and Archaic and Classical Greek Art (1998). ISBN 9780521642477