Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy by Johanna Hanink

Cambridge Classical Studies

Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy

Johanna Hanink

296 pages paperback

2 editions

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Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of 'classical' tragedy just a few generations after the city's defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth cen...

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