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David Kawalko Roselli deposited Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens in the group
Women in Antiquity on Humanities Commons 5 years agoTHEATER OF THE PEOPLE:
SPECTATORS AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT ATHENSGreek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas…[Read more]
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David Kawalko Roselli deposited Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens in the group
Greek and Roman Intellectual History on Humanities Commons 5 years agoTHEATER OF THE PEOPLE:
SPECTATORS AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT ATHENSGreek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas…[Read more]
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David Kawalko Roselli deposited Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 5 years agoTHEATER OF THE PEOPLE:
SPECTATORS AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT ATHENSGreek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas…[Read more]
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David Kawalko Roselli's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
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David Roselli deposited Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens on Humanities Commons 5 years ago
THEATER OF THE PEOPLE:
SPECTATORS AND SOCIETY IN ANCIENT ATHENSGreek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas…[Read more]
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David Roselli deposited Gender, Class, and Ideology: The Social Function of Virgin Sacrifice in Euripides’ Children of Herakles in the group
History on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sacrifice of the Maiden in Euripides’ Children of Herakles. In Part I, I discuss the role of human sacrifice in terms of its radical potential to transform society and the role of class struggle in Athens. In Part II, I argue that the representation o…[Read more]
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David Roselli deposited Gender, Class, and Ideology: The Social Function of Virgin Sacrifice in Euripides’ Children of Herakles in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sacrifice of the Maiden in Euripides’ Children of Herakles. In Part I, I discuss the role of human sacrifice in terms of its radical potential to transform society and the role of class struggle in Athens. In Part II, I argue that the representation o…[Read more]
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David Roselli deposited The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoPreliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr drama.
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David Roselli deposited The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoPreliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr drama.
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David Roselli deposited Social Class in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDiscussion of class structure in fifth-century Athens, historical constitution of theater audiences, and the changes in the comic representation of class antagonism from Aristophanes to Menander.
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David Roselli deposited Social Class in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDiscussion of class structure in fifth-century Athens, historical constitution of theater audiences, and the changes in the comic representation of class antagonism from Aristophanes to Menander.
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David Roselli deposited The Theater of Euripides in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDiscussion of the relationship between historical conditions and aesthetic form in Euripidean tragedy.
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David Roselli deposited The Theater of Euripides in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDiscussion of the relationship between historical conditions and aesthetic form in Euripidean tragedy.
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David Roselli deposited The Theater of Euripides in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDiscussion of the relationship between historical conditions and aesthetic form in Euripidean tragedy.
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David Roselli deposited Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens. In section 1, I briefly consider different forms of funerary monuments and, in particular, the…[Read more]
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David Roselli deposited Theorika in Fifth-Century Athens on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
A re-assessment of the state funding for attending dramatic festivals in fifth-century Athens. The introduction of the “Theoric Fund” is correctly dated to the middle of the fourth century, but this fact has obscured the existence of earlier theoric distributions. A careful reconsideration of the evidence of Plutarch and Philochorus in light of…[Read more]
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David Roselli deposited Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
An overview of the historical constitution of theater audiences in Classical Athens and the implications of this assessment. I first sketch out the dominant ways in which modern scholars have defined ancient audiences. I argue that attention to (male) citizenship or Greek identity has effaced the presence and role of other groups in the audience.…[Read more]
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David Roselli deposited Vegetable-Hawking Mom and Fortunate Son: Euripides, Tragic Style, and Reception on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
A study of the ancient claim that Euripides’ mother was a market-seller in terms of its political, economic, performative, and aesthetic values.
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David Roselli deposited Gender, Class, and Ideology: The Social Function of Virgin Sacrifice in Euripides’ Children of Herakles (in Classical Antiquity) on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
This paper explores how gender can operate as a disguise for class in an examination of the self-sacrifice of the Maiden in Euripides’ Children of Herakles. In Part I, I discuss the role of human sacrifice in terms of its radical potential to transform society and the role of class struggle in Athens. In Part II, I argue that the representation o…[Read more]
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David Roselli deposited The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture in R. Rader and J. Collins (eds) Ramus–The Enigmatic Context: Approaches to Greek Drama (2013) on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
Preliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr drama.
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