Book contents
- Theater Outside Athens
- Theater Outside Athens
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Tyrants, texts, and theater in early Sicily
- 1 Early Greek settlement in the West
- 2 A prolegomenon to performance in the West
- 3 Challenging authority
- 4 On Epicharmus’ literary and philosophical background
- 5 Hieron's Aeschylus
- 6 Sicily and the identities of Xuthus
- 7 A Theseus outside Athens
- 8 Dionysius I and Sicilian theatrical traditions in Plato's Republic
- Part II Stone theaters, wooden stages, and Western performance traditions
- Part III Hellenistic reflections
- Bibliography
- Index of places
- Index of names
- Subject index
- Index locorum
7 - A Theseus outside Athens
Dionysius I of Syracuse and tragic self-presentation
from Part I - Tyrants, texts, and theater in early Sicily
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Book contents
- Theater Outside Athens
- Theater Outside Athens
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Tyrants, texts, and theater in early Sicily
- 1 Early Greek settlement in the West
- 2 A prolegomenon to performance in the West
- 3 Challenging authority
- 4 On Epicharmus’ literary and philosophical background
- 5 Hieron's Aeschylus
- 6 Sicily and the identities of Xuthus
- 7 A Theseus outside Athens
- 8 Dionysius I and Sicilian theatrical traditions in Plato's Republic
- Part II Stone theaters, wooden stages, and Western performance traditions
- Part III Hellenistic reflections
- Bibliography
- Index of places
- Index of names
- Subject index
- Index locorum
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- Theater outside AthensDrama in Greek Sicily and South Italy, pp. 137 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012
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