
Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy
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Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of ''classical'' tragedy just a few generations after the city''s defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during the ''Lycurgan Era'' (338–322 BC), a number of measures were taken in Athens to affirm to the Greek world that the ac...
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Through a series of interdisciplinary studies this book argues that the Athenians themselves invented the notion of ''classical'' tragedy just a few generations after the city''s defeat in the Peloponnesian War. In the third quarter of the fourth century BC, and specifically during the ''Lycurgan Era'' (338–322 BC), a number of measures were taken in Athens to affirm to the Greek world that the ac...
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