The Philosophical Stage (eBook)

Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens

Joshua Billings (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21111-4 (ISBN)

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A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinkingThe Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at the heart of intellectual history. Drawing on evidence from tragedy and comedy, Joshua Billings shines new light on the development of early Greek philosophy, arguing that drama is our best source for understanding the intellectual culture of classical Athens.In this incisive book, Billings recasts classical Greek intellectual history as a conversation across discourses and demonstrates the significance of dramatic reflections on widely shared theoretical questions. He argues that neither literature nor philosophy was a defined category in the fifth century BCE, and develops a method of reading dramatic form as a structured investigation of issues at the heart of the emerging discipline of philosophy.A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's most original classical scholars, The Philosophical Stage presents a novel approach to ancient drama and sets a path for a renewed understanding of early Greek thought.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Schlagworte: Aeschylus • Agathon • agnosticism • Allegory • Allusion • Ambiguity • Ancient Greek comedy • Antigone • Antiope • Archaic Greece • Aristophanes • Asyndeton • Atheism • Bacchae • Callicles • Cambridge University Press • Center for Hellenic Studies • Citation • classical Athens • clytemnestra • Consciousness • Copyright • Criticism • Determination • Dialectic • Dialogic • Dionysia • Dionysus • Dissoi logoi • electra • Eleusinian mysteries • Empedocles • Essay • Euripides • Explanation • Friedrich Nietzsche • Generosity • Gorgias • Greek Literature • Greek tragedy • Hesiod • Hippias • Ideology • Inception • Intellectual history • Irony • Literature • Maria Michela Sassi • Mimesis • Modernity • Myth • narrative • Nietzsche • Odysseus • Oedipus the King • Oracle • Oreste • Oxford University Press • Palamedes • Palamedes (Arthurian legend) • Parmenides • Parody • Pentheus • Philoctetes • Philosopher • philosophical methodology • Philosophy • Plato • Poetry • Presocratic philosophy • Pre-Socratic Philosophy • Princeton University Press • Prodicus • Prometheus • Prometheus Bound • Prose • prosopopoeia • Protagoras • Protagoras (dialogue) • Pythagoreanism • reason • Religion • rhetoric • Sextus Empiricus • Simon Goldhill, Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy • socratic • Sophist • Sophistication • Sophocles • Stasimon • stobaeus • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Suppliants • Teleology • The Bacchae • The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece • The Birth of Tragedy • the Greek stage • Theism • theory • Theory of Forms • The Persians • The Sophists • The Various • Thought • traditional story • Tragedy • Translations • Uncertainty • Usage • Writer • Writing • Xenophanes
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21111-6 / 0691211116
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21111-4 / 9780691211114