A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama

This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC.

• Covers all three genres of ancient Greek drama – tragedy, comedy, and satyr-drama
• Surveys the extant work of Aeschylus, Sophokles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander, and includes entries on ‘lost’ playwrights
• Examines contextual issues such as the origins of dramatic art forms; the conventions of the festivals and the theater; drama’s relationship with the worship of Dionysos; political dimensions of drama; and how to read and watch Greek drama
• Includes single-page synopses of every surviving ancient Greek play

Keywords: Classical Greek Literature, theater studies, theatre studies, ancient theater, ancient theatre, tragedy, comedy, satyr-drama, ancient Greek culture, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Dionysus, how to teach Greek drama, how to read Greek drama, Greek playwrights, Ancient Greek plays