Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily by Bosher, Kathryn G. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Coverpage Half title Title page Imprints page Contents Figures Maps Tables Foreword Note to the Reader 1 Introduction

1.1 Sicily’s Network

(a) Internet and networks (b) Regions and origins

1.2 Scope

2 Out of the Shadows

2.1 Epicharmus 2.2 Literary Traditions in Sicily 2.3 Doric Comedy 2.4 Early Literary Influences 2.5 Epicharmus, Early Performance, and Comic Competitions

3 Cult and Circumstance

3.1 Demeter 3.2 Demeter in the Fragments of Epicharmus 3.3 Odysseus Automolos and Demeter the Savior 3.4 Ideas in the Air: Pythagoras, Prodicus, and Epicharmus’ Earth 3.5 Dionysus, the God from the East 3.6 Dionysus’ Precarious Position 3.7 Commemorating Sicilian Theater 3.8 Dionysus and Comic Actors 3.9 Dionysus in the Fragments of Epicharmus 3.10 Demeter’s Island and Sicilian Tyrants 3.11 Burlesque and the Grave

4 Politics and Propaganda

4.1 Plays about Current Affairs and Local Settings 4.2 Creating a Community of Greeks 4.3 Controlling the Island: Establishing Greek Dominance 4.4 Theater and Democracy 4.5 Defining Tyranny 4.6 Aeschylus’ Persians 4.7 A Good Tyrant 4.8 Tyranny and Democracy in Syracuse, 490–466 4.9 Epicharmus 4.10 Conclusion

5 Taking Theater Home

5.1 Viewers and Settings 5.2 Comic Vases: a Review of Scholarly Interpretations of the Comic Phlyax Vases 5.3 Phlyakes among Images 5.4 Attic Comedy in the West 5.5 Würzburg Telephos 5.6 The “Choregoi” 5.7 Sicily and Paestum 5.8 Tragic Vases 5.9 Characters on Stage: a Link between Tragic and Comic Sicilian Vases 5.10 The Combination Theory: Doric and Attic Comic Traditions Merge in the West

6 Drama in Public

6.1 Assemblies and the Theater 6.2 Theater Design and the Influence of Athens 6.3 Timoleon 6.4 Dionysius and the Spark of Theater in the Fourth Century 6.5 Whose Theater?

7 Conclusion

7.1 The Gap

Bibliography Index locorum General Index