Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy

These new and specially-commissioned essays discuss the ways in which performance is central to the practice and ideology of democracy in classical Athens. From theatre to law-court to gymnasium to symposium, performance is a basic part of Athenian society; how do these different areas interrelate and inform the politics and culture of the democratic city? Drama, rhetoric, philosophy, literature and art are all discussed by leading scholars in this interdisciplinary volume.

List of figures

vii

(1)

List of contributors

viii

(1)

Preface

ix

(2)

List of abbreviations

xi

1 Programme notes

1

(32)

SIMON GOLDHILL

I The performance of drama

33

(92)

2 Spreading the word through performance

33

(25)

OLIVER TAPLIN

3 The aulos in Athens

58

(38)

PETER WILSON

4 Actor's song in tragedy

96

(29)

EDITH HALL

II The drama of performance

125

(76)

5 Performative aspects of the choral voice in Greek tragedy: civic identity in performance

125

(29)

CLAUDE CALAME

6 Actors and voices: reading between the lines in Aeschines and Demosthenes

154

(13)

PAT EASTERLING

7 Aristophanes: the performance of utopia in the Ecclesiazousae

167

(34)

FROMA ZEITLIN

III Rhetoric and performance

201

(92)

8 The rhetoric of anti-rhetoric in Athenian oratory

201

(30)

JON HESK

9 Reading Homer from the rostrum: poems and laws in Aeschines' Against Timarchus

231

(26)

ANDREW FORD

10 Plato and the performance of dialogue

257

(36)

SITTA VON REDEN

SIMON GOLDHILL

IV Ritual and state: visuality and the performance of citizenship

293

(81)

11 Processional performance and the democratic polis

293

(28)

ATHENA KAVOULAKI

12 The spectacular and the obscure in Athenian religion

321

(20)

MICHAEL H. JAMESON

13 Inscribing performance

341

(18)

ROBIN OSBORNE

14 Publicity and performance: kalos inscriptions in Attic vase-painting

359

(15)

FRANCOIS LISSARRAGUE

List of works cited

374

(36)

Index

410

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