Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics
Mystery Cults, Theatre and Athenian Politics
A Reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs
Barzini, Luigi
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
08/2021
280
Dura
Inglês
9781350187320
15 a 20 dias
567
Acknowledgements
Definitions
Part One: Summary and Context
1. The Plays, the Eleusinian and Great Dionysia Festival
2. Mysteries and Mystical Initiation in Athens
3. Initiates and Theatre Audiences in Athens
4. Mystery Rituals and Theatre Performances
5. The Polis, Mystery Cults and Civic Ideology
6. Historical Context and Episodes
Part Two: The Plays
7. The Plays and Scholarship
8. Politics in the Plays
9. Mystery Cults and the Choruses
10. Political Implications
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Definitions
Part One: Summary and Context
1. The Plays, the Eleusinian and Great Dionysia Festival
2. Mysteries and Mystical Initiation in Athens
3. Initiates and Theatre Audiences in Athens
4. Mystery Rituals and Theatre Performances
5. The Polis, Mystery Cults and Civic Ideology
6. Historical Context and Episodes
Part Two: The Plays
7. The Plays and Scholarship
8. Politics in the Plays
9. Mystery Cults and the Choruses
10. Political Implications
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index