Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World
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Free Download Eric Csapo, "Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World"
English | ISBN: 3110795965 | 2022 | 400 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 122 MB
Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre - rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy - serve their needs?
Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" (Republic 568c).
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