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Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius

Robin Mitchell-Boyask
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Description:The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists & on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this 2007 book, Prof. Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s & argues for a significant relationship between drama & the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war & increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing & the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius. To get started finding Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius

Robin Mitchell-Boyask
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Description: The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists & on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this 2007 book, Prof. Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s & argues for a significant relationship between drama & the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war & increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing & the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius. To get started finding Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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