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In Brill's Companion to the Reception of Senecan Tragedy , Eric Dodson-Robinson incorporates essays by specialists working across disciplines and national literatures into a subtle narrative tracing the diverse scholarly, literary and theatrical receptions of Seneca's tragedies. The tragedies, influential throughout the Roman world well beyond Seneca's time, plunge into obscurity in Late Antiquity and nearly disappear during the Middle Ages. Profound consequences follow from the rediscovery of a dusty manuscript containing nine plays attributed to Seneca: it is seminal to both the renaissance of tragedy and the birth of Humanism. Canonical Western writers from Antiquity to the present have revisited, transformed, and eviscerated Senecan precedents to develop, in Dodson-Robinson's words, 'competing tragic visions of agency and the human place in the universe.'
Comparative literature --- Seneca [Younger] --- Latin drama (Tragedy) --- History and criticism --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, --- Appreciation --- Art appreciation --- Latin drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, - approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. - Tragedies --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, - approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. - Appreciation --- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, - approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. --- History and criticism. --- Appreciation.
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What was ancient democracy like? Why did it spread in ancient Greece? An astonishing number of volumes have been devoted to the well-attested Athenian case, while non-Athenian democracy - for which evidence is harder to come by - has received only fleeting attention. Nevertheless, there exists a scattered body of ancient material regarding democracy beyond Athens, from ancient literary authors and epigraphic documents to archaeological evidence, out of which one can build an understanding of the phenomenon. This book presents a detailed study of ancient Greek democracy in the Classical period (480-323 BC), focusing on examples outside Athens. It has three main goals: to identify where and when democratic governments established themselves in ancient Greek city-states; to explain why democracy spread to many parts of Greece in this period; and to further our understanding of the nature of ancient democracy by studying its practices beyond Athens.
Democracy --- Démocratie --- History --- Histoire --- Greece --- Grèce --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Démocratie --- Grèce --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Arts and Humanities
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