Greek Theatre scholarship

greek drama and its relation to the polis - Higgins

‘to attend the theatre was the religious duty of all pious citizens’

greek drama and its relation to the polis - Goldhill

‘the theatre is a map of the city’

greek drama and its relation to the polis - Edith Hall

‘greek tragedy does its thinking in a form that is vastly more politically advanced than the society which produced greek tragedy’

oedipus the king - Higgins

‘the ridicule of the prophet and his prophecy reflects a change in athens during the 5th Century BC’

oedipus the king - Goldhill

‘oedipus’ inability to understand his own name is his first and founding problem’

the bacchae - Higgins

‘the ridicule of the prophet and his prophecy reflects a change in athens in the 5th century BC’

the bacchae - Seaford

‘pentheus’ sufferings come to him on account of his unwillingness to paticipate, and fall subject to the shared ectasy. but he is dragged into it against his will, making his journey that of an unwilling initiate’

the frogs - Kenneth Dover

frogs can essentially be summarised as: ‘old ways good, new ways bad’

the frogs - Edith Hall

‘comedy was intimatly tied to democracy