Военная история / Rehearsals of Manhood: Athenian Drama as Social Practice

Название: Rehearsals of Manhood: Athenian Drama as Social Practice
Автор: John J. Winkler
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2023
Страниц: 249
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 96 MB

Ancient Athens was a military conclave as well as an urban capital, and male citizens were expected to embody the ideal of the Athenian citizen-soldier. Winkler understands Attic drama as a secular manhood ritual, a collaborative aesthetic and civic enterprise focused on the initiation of boys into manhood and the training, testing, and representation of young male warriors. Past efforts to discover the origins and development of Greek tragedy have largely treated drama as a literary genre, isolating it from other Athenian social practices. Winkler returns Greek tragedy to its social context, showing how it was one among many forms of display and performance cultivated by elite males in ancient Greece.