Reperforming Greek Tragedy: Theater, Politics, and Cultural Mobility in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC PDF
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Anna A. Lamari Reperforming Greek Tragedy Trends in Classics – Supplementary Volumes Edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos Scientific Committee Alberto Bernabé · Margarethe Billerbeck Claude Calame · Jonas Grethlein · Philip R. Hardie Stephen J. Harrison · Stephen Hinds · Richard Hunter Christina Kraus · Giuseppe Mastromarco · Gregory Nagy Theodore D. Papanghelis · Giusto Picone · Kurt Raaflaub Tim Whitmarsh · Bernhard Zimmermann Volume 52 Anna A. Lamari Reperforming Greek Tragedy Theater, Politics, and Cultural Mobility in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC ISBN 978-3-11-055986-6 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-056116-6 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-055993-4 ISSN 1868-4785 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Logo: Christopher Schneider, Laufen Printing: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Printed on acid-free paper Printed in Germany www.degruyter.com For Konstantina, Maria, and Konstantina: daughter, mother, andgrandmother. Contents Preface IX Introduction 1 Traveling poets in Attica and beyond 17 . Introduction 17 . A culture of travel and reperformance 18 . Aeschylus 23 .. Aeschylus in Sicily 23 . Sophocles 35 .. Sophocles and Aristophanes (re)performing at Eleusis 35 .. Sophocles (re)performing Telepheia at Halai Aixonides 37 .. A reperformanceat Kollytos? 38 . Euripides 39 .. Euripides in Sicily 39 .. Euripides (re)performing in Peiraeus 40 .. Euripides performing in Anagyrous 44 .. Euripides in Macedon 45 .. Euripidean reperformances in Cyrene? 53 .. Euripides in Thessaly and Molossia? 54 . The tradition of the embolima 56 Reperformances in a political context 59 . Introduction 59 . Beginning of reperformances in the fifth century 60 .. Evaluating the sources 62 .. διδάσκειν, ἀναδιδάσκειν, and παραδιδάσκειν 66 . Aeschylus’ death and the politicization of tragic reperformances 68 .. Choregiae 69 .. Aeschylus and Pericles 72 . Euripides, palaion drama, and 386 77 . Traveling actors and reperformances of tragedy in Macedon 82 .. Philip II 82 .. Alexander 89 . Political reperformances of tragedyin Sicily 92 VIII Contents Tragic reperformances and traveling actors 95 . Introduction 95 . Traveling texts 96 . Reperformances by traveling actors and local choruses 99 . Reperformances and the development of the acting profession 105 . The rise of actors as reflected in vase-painting 110 . Actors, reperformances and textual transmission 115 .. Playwrights’ authority 117 .. Actors, reperformances and texts 121 .. Master copies 123 .. Reperformances and actors’ interpolations: surveying the ancient evidence 125 Reperformances and Vase-painting 130 . Introduction 130 . ‘Philodramatists’ and ‘Iconocentrists’ 131 . Vases 137 . Outbound traveling: images exported to the West 137 .. Cyclops (re)performed 137 .. Reperformances and some vases of the Policoro tomb 141 .. Euripides’ Heracleidae 142 .. Euripides’ Medea in Policoro and Cleveland 144 . Inbound traveling: images imported to the East and repurposed 151 .. Aetnaeae recycled? 151 . The visual memory of viewers and vase-painters 156 Conclusions 159 Abbreviations and Conventions 163 Bibliography 164 List of Plates/Image Credits 178 Plates 179 General Index 194 Index of Passages 197 Preface It is a pleasure to recognize the help that I have received from family, friends, colleagues and institutions during my work on this book. First among these is Patrick Finglass,with whom I shared my idea of starting a project on tragic re- performancesbackinDecember2010.Sincethen,hehasbeenreadingeachsec- tionofthebookassoonasitwasreadyandgenerouslyprovidingacademicmo- tivation and personal support. I was also fortunate enough to benefit from the encouragementanderuditionofEricCsapo,whomagnanimouslyreadandcom- menteduponthefinaldraftandgraciouslypushedforthebigandclearerideas. Antonios Rengakos has once again been a dearest friend and benefactoron an academicandapersonallevel.Iwouldliketoexpressmydeepgratitudetoboth him and Franco Montanari for accepting my work in Trends in Classics Supple- mentary Volumes. I am also indebted to Angelos Chaniotis for his illuminating remarks at the Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium in 2014 and for allowing me access to forthcoming workof his. ThisbringsmetotheimmensedebtofgratitudeIowetoGregNagyandHar- vard’sCenterforHellenicStudies.TheprofuseauspicesoftheCenterforHellenic Studies provided an idyllic environment of unprecedented academic assistance for the establishment and progress of my ideas on tragic reperformances.Greg Nagy’swisdomenhancedmythoughtsonancientperformanceandhisenthusi- asmandwarmthprovidedgenerousencouragement.Anumberofotherfunding bodiesmadethecompletionofthisbookpossible.TheAristotleUniversity’sRe- searchCommitteehastwicehonoredthisprojectwithawardsofexcellence,and the Nikos and Lyntia Tricha Foundation funded this book at its initial stages. Onapersonallevel,thisbookwouldhaveneverbeencompletedwithoutthe love,patience, and assistanceof myhusband Christos Tsagalis, and mydaugh- ters Alexia and Konstantina. I thank the former for being my biggest, earnest, and dearest supporter and for unfailingly proving how labor omnia vincit. I thank the latter for being the best children a mother could ask for. My brother GregoryandmyfatherAlexiswerealwaysmychampions.MymotherMariafol- lowed me to the other side of the Atlantic to care for mydaughterswhile Iwas workingattheCenterforHellenic Studies,havingnosecondthoughtsconcern- ingtheEastCoastwintersormychildrens’tantrums.Herselflesslovetouswas puttothebiggesttestwhenhermotherpassed.Thisbookisdedicatedtoher,my late grandmother, and mydaughter Konstantina.
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