Lycurgan Athens and the making of classical tragedy / Johanna Hanink.

"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 century BC, and specifically during the 'Lycurgan Era'...

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Main Author:	Hanink, Johanna, 1982- (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:	Cambridge classical studies.
Subjects:	Athens (Greece) > History. Lycurgus, > approximately 390 B.C.-approximately 324 B.C. Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism. Tragedy. Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C. Literature and society > Greece > Athens.
Physical Description:	xiii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format:	Book