Playing in the Sun: Ancient Theatre Between DisciplinesEssays on the 70th Birthday of Bernhard Zimmermann

by: Novokhatko, A.A. Rengakos, A. Grethlein, J.

Playing in the Sun: Ancient Theatre Between Disciplines
Essays on the 70th Birthday of Bernhard Zimmermann
Edited by: Anna A. Novokhatko , Antonios Rengakos and Jonas Grethlein

About this book
In the ancient world, theatre was one of the main factors of social interaction, spreading political, religious, cultural and socio-ethical concepts among the people, transmitting knowledge and thus uniting the diverse populations of cities and villages. Some of these models were retained, with minor changes, in the repertoires of the new theatres and are still performed on stage in their original form or in accurate translations into new languages.

The essays in this volume discuss the phenomenon of Greek and Roman theatre from historical, archaeological, linguistic and philological perspectives. Some chapters also deal with modern European theatre, such as Neo-Latin drama.

The topic has been chosen as a central focus of research by Bernhard Zimmermann, Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Freiburg. The essays, written as a tribute by scholars from Germany, Italy, Greece, Austria, the United Kingdom and the United States, represent a wide range of approaches and traditions and take into account the latest trends in theatre studies. The volume will be an important guide for a wider audience interested in the history of ancient theatre, but also in the long course of its interaction with the modern European tradition.

Author / Editor information
A. Novokhatko, University of Trento, Italy; A. Rengakos, University of Thessaloniki, Greece; J. Grethlein, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Table of contents
Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part I: Dramatic Texts: Form, Music, Narrative
Bacchylides? Ode 5 and Sophocles? Trachiniae: Lyric Poetry and Tragedy

Carmine Catenacci
On Misunderstanding Apollo: The Oracle and Its Consequences in Soph. O.R.

Martin Hose
“And They Lived Happily Ever After”? A Tentative Taxonomy of (More or Less) Happy Endings in Euripides

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
Fantastic Beasts and How to Use Them: Animal Characters and Choruses in Old Comedy

Ioannis M. Konstantakos
Juxtaposing and Contrasting Modes of Speech Presentation in Aristophanes? Knights 624–690: Narrative Techniques, Performance, and Plot

Stylianos Chronopoulos
A ?Metic? Prometheus in Aristophanes? Birds

Olimpia Imperio
Ein neues Fragment des Komödiendichters Aristomenes

Christian Orth
“Is Your Roof Leaking Anywhere?” Euripides? Danae Transformed Into Menander?s Samia

Ioanna Karamanou
Osservazioni sull?uso delle soluzioni anapestiche nei trimetri giambici di Filemone

Virginia Mastellari
Part II: Theatre, Society, Perception
The Audience in the Time of the Athenian Theatrocracy

Eric Csapo
Tür, Bühnenkran, Ekkyklema: Zu Aristophanes? Technik der Evokation des Imaginativen

Wolfgang Ehrhardt
Remarks on the Ancient Theatre in Aegina

Hans Rupprecht Goette
Dikaiopolis? Spatiotemporal Coordinates in Aristophanes? Acharnians

Edith Hall
Spielen und Tanzen für die Demokratie. Zur politischen Funktion des Theaters in den „Fröschen“ des Aristophanes

Hans-Joachim Gehrke
On Comedy, Football and (Once Again) the Impact of Theatre on Spectators? Reactions

Anna Novokhatko
Clio Smiles: Greek Comedy As and For Historiography

Jeffrey Henderson
Meditation und Panegyrik in Brixen: Joseph Reschs Pastor bonus (1748)

Wolfgang Kofler
“I Had a Little Nut-Tree”

Alan H. Sommerstein
Part III: Dramatic Texts and Theatre Through the Eyes of Ancient Scholars
Un teatro per l?impero. Le citazioni drammatiche in Plinio il Vecchio e Svetonio

Bernhard Zimmermann in Dankbarkeit gewidmet
Francesco Paolo Bianchi
Julius Pollux on the Theatre (4.99–154)

S. Douglas Olson
Taking it on Trust?: Euripides and the Epistemological Tradition

Richard Hunter
Scholars on Comedians on Lyric Poets: Ar. Nub. 967 from Stesichorus to Didymus

Andreas Willi
Citazioni di Eschilo negli scholia all?Iliade

Franco Montanari
Where Narrative Meets Drama: argumentum as a Term for (Realistic) Fiction

Stefan Tilg
Poetae comici satyrographi. Euanthius? griechische Komödiengeschichte in bikulturellem Kontext

Gregor Vogt-Spira
List of Contributors

General Index

Index of Passages

Antike Migration

by: Sehlmeyer, M.

• ISBN-13: 9783110721362 / 978-3-11-072136-2
• ISBN-03: 3110721368 / 3-11-072136-8
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2025

Playing in the Sun: Ancient Theatre Between DisciplinesEssays on the 70th Birthday of Bernhard Zimmermann

by: Novokhatko, A.A. Rengakos, A. Grethlein, J.

• ISBN-13: 9783111594194 / 978-3-11-159419-4
• ISBN-03: 311159419X / 3-11-159419-X
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2025