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  • Dionysus Course: The Past and the Future of Theatrical Myth

     

    The contact of the contemporary audience with the ancient drama often raises questions and concerns about the understanding and interpretation of its existence (as performance) in the postmodern era conditions, causing reasonable doubts about the possibility of its survival in future millennium. Continue Reading

    November 27, 2016 • Ancient Drama • Views: 5038

  • The birth and the lasting newness of ancient greek tragedy

    In our effort to understand tragedy as a kind of cultural creation in such range, we should go back to the initial time of its conception, creation and formatting stage as entity during the 5th century in Athens. In our approach, we find that the historical reality, which means the objective events that some people might have heard through mythological stories or their literary versions that once occurred in the distant past, converted in the haze of history into legend and then molded through the passage of time in myth (Trojan war, argonautica). Continue Reading

    November 6, 2016 • Ancient Drama • Views: 5174

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