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This book offers a comprehensive study of reperformances of Greek drama in the 5th and 4th centuries BC in the context of cultural mobility and theatrical traveling. These phenomena are examined along with other contemporaneous developments, such as the spread of drama beyond the Athenian borders, cultural politics, the rise of the acting profession, and the cultural export of images of performances as tragic snapshots depicted on vase-painting.

This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from the...

Euripides' Phoenissae bears one of the richest tragic plots: multiple narrative levels are interwoven by means of various anachronies, focalizers offer different and often challenging points of view, while a complex mythical matrix is deftly employed as the backdrop against which the exploration of the mechanics of tragic narrative takes place. After providing a critical perspective on the ongoing scholarly dialogue regarding narratology and d...