Smit - A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

1. Frontmatter
2. Chapter 02
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 06
5. Chapter 07
6. Chapter 08
7. Chapter 09
8. Chapter 11
9. Chapter 12
10. Chapter 13
11. Chapter 14
12. Chapter 15
13. Chapter 17
14. Chapter 21
15. Chapter 22
16. Chapter 23
17. Chapter 24
18. Chapter 25

This series offers comprehensive, thought-provoking surveys of the reception of major classical authors and themes. These Handbooks will consist of approximately 30 newly written essays by leading scholars in the field, and will map the ways in which the ancient world has been viewed and adapted up to the present day. Essays are meant to be engaging, accessible, and scholarly pieces of writing, and are designed for an audience of advanced undergraduates, graduates, and scholars.

Published :

A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid
John Miller and Carole E. Newlands

A Handbook to the Reception of Thucydides
Christine Lee and Neville Morley

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama
Betine van Zyl Smit

Forthcoming :

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology
Vanda Zajko

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe
Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, and Dorota Dutsch

Edited by

Betine van Zyl Smit

This edition first published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Smit, Betine van Zyl, editor.
Title: A handbook to the reception of Greek drama / edited by Betine van Zyl Smit.
Other titles: Wiley Blackwell handbooks to classical reception.
Description: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016. | Series: Wiley-Blackwell handbooks to classical reception series
Identifiers: LCCN 2015047421 | ISBN 9781118347751 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Greek dramaAppreciation. | Greek dramaHistory and criticism.
Classification: LCC PA3133 .H35 2016 | DDC 882/.0109dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047421

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Cover image: Tristram Kenton, by Euripides Bacchai at the National.

Figure 0.1 Irene Papas and Costa Kazakos as Clytaemnestra and Agamemnon in Iphigenia (1976) directed by Michael Cacoyannis.

Source: Greek Film Centre/The Kobal Collection. Courtesy of The Picture Desk.

This project has been four years in the making. During that time some of the original contributors have had to withdraw because of illness or personal circumstances. One tragic loss was the death of Professor Ahmed Etman who was killed in a traffic accident in Cairo two years ago. He leaves a great legacy of scholarship and creative writing. The author who has taken over his chapter on the reception of Greek Drama in Arabic, Mohammad Almohanna, has included a section on Professor Etmans adaptation of Sophocles Ichneutai as The Goats of Oxyrhynchus.

The completion of this project would not have been possible without the hard work of all the contributors and the continuous support of Haze Humbert and Allison Kostka at Wiley-Blackwell. I would like to thank them all for their co-operation. I am grateful to the Copy-editor, Susan Dunsmore, who smoothed out some inconsistencies.

Sincere thanks are also due to the Production editor, Dilip Kizzhakekkara, who was unfailingly courteous and capable in seeing the Handbook through the last stages. Finally, I would like to acknowledge the excellent work of Terry Halliday who compiled the Index.

Betine van Zyl Smit
Nottingham
13 August 2015

Irene Papas and Costa Kazakos as Clytaemnestra and Agamemnon in Iphigenia (1976) directed by Michael Cacoyannis.

One of the earliest West Greek vases depicting what must be an Athenian comedy, since the characters are speaking Attic dialect.

Water-fountain spout in the shape of the Greek mask of a comic cook from the Hellenistic city of Ai Khanum, modern NE Afghanistan.

Euripides Helen: Ancient Transmission and Medieval Preservation. (a) Fragmentary papyrus scroll. (b) Page from parchment codex.

Baldassarre Peruzzi (14811536): perspective for a theater scene.

Charles Le Bruns frontispiece engraving (two men fighting) in Corneilles Horace 1641 Trinity College Dublin Library.

A facsimile of the front-page to John Pickering's Horestes (1567).