Aeschylus and the cultural history of tragedy : dramatic connoisseurship, ideology, and poetics from the 5th century BCE to the 5th century CE
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In 456 BCE, the story goes, an unsuspecting eagle tried to crack a tortoise open on the tragedian Aeschylus' bald head, killing him instantly. This dissertation explores what happened next—how assessments of Aeschylus' contributions to tragedy and place in history shifted over the following centuries, and how his poetics and dramaturgy were variously described, admired, reviled, imitated, and avoided. Over the past few decades, scholarship on drama after the fifth century BCE has focused on important issues of reperformance and canon formation, especially in the fourth century BCE. This dissertation moves beyond these issues to ask a different, equally important set of questions: what place—or places—did Aeschylus hold in the cultural history of tragedy? Setting aside the historical Aeschylus, what is at stake in the stories told about him? What do these stories say about how tragedy is conceived and how it fits into broader cultural narratives and institutions? What implications do these conceptions have for literary and visual interpretations of Aeschylus' life and work? In exploring these questions across multiple centuries and genres, this dissertation uncovers a rich case study in how ancient thinking about a single figure shaped the ways cultural artifacts were assessed and experienced—and the ways new ones were produced.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Ten-Hove, Elizabeth Margaret |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia |
| Thesis advisor | Peponi, Anastasia-Erasmia |
| Thesis advisor | Griffith, Mark, (Classicist) |
| Thesis advisor | Martin, Richard P |
| Thesis advisor | Stephens, Susan A |
| Degree committee member | Griffith, Mark, (Classicist) |
| Degree committee member | Martin, Richard P |
| Degree committee member | Stephens, Susan A |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Lizzy Ten-Hove. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Elizabeth Margaret Ten-Hove
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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