Refiguring Tragedy: Studies in Plays Preserved in Fragments and Their Reception

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This book brings together case studies delving into different, unstudied aspects of the Nachleben of selected lost tragedies either in their once extant form or in their fragmentary state in later periods of time. It seeks to explore the ways in which the plays in question were reworked, discussed, represented or reperformed within varying frameworks. Notably enough, research on the reception of tragic fragments could yield insight not only into the receiving work, but also into the facets of the source text that have attracted attention in its subsequent refigurations. It could thus shed light on the ideological and cultural routes through which these fragmentary tragedies were received by the poet, the scholar, the artist, the viewer, the reader and the spectator in each case. The complex process of the refiguration of a fragmentarily preserved play within different contexts could form a yardstick of its cultural power and elucidate the dynamics of fragmentation in modern times. Τhe volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception, cultural and performance studies, as well as to readers fascinated by Greek tragedy and its vibrant afterlife. Preface Contents Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Inter-dramatic Dialogues ‘All’s well that ends well’: Euripides’ response to Sophocles’ Antigone Alope’s legend and its dramatic refigurations Tragedy into Comedy: Euripides’ Alcmeon in Corinth as a source text of Menander’s Periceiromene Part II: Tragedy through Aristotelian Spectacles Exploring Aristotle’s Poetics as a source for lost tragedies Aristotle’s reception of the lysis in Theodectes’ Lynceus: Remarks on Poet. 11, 1452a 27–29 and 18, 1455b 29–32 Part III: Iconographic Reception The representation of Euripides’ Dictys in South Italian painted pottery The reception of Euripides’ Alexandros in Etruscan iconography Part IV: Performing Fragments Euripides’ Alexandros in performance Bibliography General Index Index of Passages Discussed