"For the first time one volume provides the reader with scholarly examination of the genre of satyr drama by experts in multiple fields: philology, textual criticism, literary interpretation, ancient reception, and archaeology. Sections are devoted to the three most prolific wri…
Reconstructing satyr drama
by Redondo, Jordi, Seaford, Richard, Carpenter, T. H., Thomas, Oliver, Charalabopoulos, Nikos G., Bierl, Anton, Jackson, Lucy C. M. M., Diggle, James, Slater, Niall W., Antonopoulos, Andreas P., Carrara, Laura, Catrambone, Marco, Christopoulos, Menelaos M., Cipolla, Paolo B., Harrison, George W. M., Hedreen, Guy, Kotlińska-Toma, Agnieszka, Krumeich, Ralf, Meccariello, Chiara, Michels, Johanna A., Nolan Pritchett, Hollister, O'Sullivan, Patrick, Palmisciano, Riccardo, Seidensticker, Bernd, Sfyroeras, Pavlos, Shaw, Carl A., Skotheim, Mali, Slenders, Willeon, Smith, Tyler Jo, Sonnino, Maurizio, Touyz, Paul M., Uhlig, Anna, Voelke, Pierre
The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume's contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical p…