By Kathryn Bosher
This quantity brings jointly archeologists, paintings historians, philologists, literary students, political scientists and historians to articulate the ways that western Greek theater used to be certain from that of the Greek mainland and, whilst, to enquire how the 2 traditions interacted. The papers intersect and construct on one another of their pursuit of a few shared questions and issues: where of theater within the cultural lifetime of Sicilian and South Italian 'colonial cities;' theater as a mode of cultural self-identification; shared mythological subject matters in functionality texts and theatrical vase-painting; and the mirrored image and research of Sicilian and South Italian theater within the paintings of Athenian philosophers and playwrights. jointly, the essays discover vital difficulties within the research of western Greek theater. by way of amassing more than a few views and strategies, this quantity deals the 1st wide-ranging exam of this hitherto ignored background.
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When he proposes his final concert to the sailors he asks whether they want to hear him sing in costume, then he puts it on, and finally leaps into the sea, costume and all. Evidently the outfit was impressive. The west is clearly established as a place where singers would be enthusiastically received and, in exchange for a spectacular performance, would make a substantial profit. The excursion of Arion would later be matched by Simonides, Pindar, Bacchylides, Aeschylus, and others. Greek poetry in the west, both choral and monodic, was as early as the first colonists.
580 bc. For the pluralistic connotations of the pan- prefix: Diller (1937) 20; Cassola (1953) 299; Fowler (1998) 10. See generally Hall (2002) 125–34. g. Malkin (1986). Contra Lomas (1993) 11, 32. 154 on Fri Nov 15 19:09:01 WET 2013. 003 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 27 28 jonathan m. hall Carthaginians at Himera in 480 bc could have provided a golden opportunity to stress western Greek supremacy over the forces of barbarism – indeed, Pindar (Pyth. 72–80) likens a Syracusan victory over a Phoenician and Etruscan fleet off Cumae to the battles of both Salamis and Plataea – but that possibility was never really capitalized upon.
Vesp. 1253–5; fr. 627 K. See Cassio (1985) 42. On Epicharmus, see Willi and Rodr´ıguez-Noriega Guill´en, this volume. Cf. Arist. Poet. 1449b6. See Cassio (2002) 52. On Aristotle, see also Kutzko, this volume. Bernabo` Brea (1957) 147–85; V. Tusa (1988–9); Cusumano (1994) 149–58; La Rosa (1996); Palermo (1996); Albanese Procelli (1997); Pancucci (1997). 154 on Fri Nov 15 19:08:54 WET 2013. 003 Cambridge Books Online © Cambridge University Press, 2013 19 20 jonathan m. ”5 In the second model, the settlers are not simply transmitters of a Greek culture from the Aegean to the west, but create something rather different in their new setting.