Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy

Abstract

1. Programme notes Simon Goldhill Part I. The Performance of Drama: 2. Spreading the word through performance Oliver Taplin 3. The aulos in Athens Peter Wilson 4. Actor's song in tragedy Edith Hall Part II. The Drama of Performance: 5. Performative aspects of the choral voice in Greek tragedy: civic identity in performance Claude Calame 6. Actors and voices: reading between the lines in Aeschines and Demosthenes Pat Easterling 7. Aristophanes: the performance of Utopia in the Ecclesiazusae Froma Zeitlin Part III. Rhetoric and Performance: 8. The rhetoric of anti-rhetoric in Athenian oratory Jon Hesk 9. Reading Homer from the rostrum: poems and laws in Aeschines' In Timarchum Andrew Ford 10. Plato and the performance of dialogue Simon Goldhill and Sitta von Reden Part IV. Ritual and State: Visuality and the Performance of Citizenship: 11. Processional performance and the democratic polis Athena Kavoulaki 12. The spectacular and the obscure in Athenian religion Michael H. Jameson 13. Inscribing performance Robin Osborne 14. Publicity and performance: kalos inscriptions in Attic vase-painting Francois Lissarrague.