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The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama. Edited by Eric Csapo and Margaret C. Miller

The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama. Edited by Eric Csapo... Pp. xxi, 440 , Cambridge University Press , 2007 , £50.00. Jane Harrison and the Cambridge Ritualists, early in the twentieth century, fixed firmly in our minds the view that drama developed out of religious ritual. But how did this happen? And is the view unassailable? This important book, consisting of seventeen essays that grew out of a colloquium, is the most thorough and wide‐ranging attempt for surprisingly many years to address these and related questions. I cannot imagine a better introduction to the topic than the editors' introduction, which not only covers the history of relevant scholarship, but also surveys the contributions the various kinds of evidence can make. This is followed by three chapters on what archaic Greek vases can tell us about the origins of drama. These three chapters are topped and tailed by a brief introduction and a longer ‘discussion’ of points raised by the main essays. The whole book is richly illustrated, but naturally this section contains proportionally more images than other sections. The writers focus especially on vases that depict ‘komasts’– strange, padded, dancing figures that occur on a large number of Corinthian and other vases, which metamorphosed into somewhat more elegant http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Heythrop Journal Wiley

The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Beyond: From Ritual to Drama. Edited by Eric Csapo and Margaret C. Miller

Waterfield, Robin
The Heythrop Journal , Volume 48 (5) – Sep 1, 2007
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Copyright © 2007 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0018-1196
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10.1111/j.1468-2265.2007.00344_1.x
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Pp. xxi, 440 , Cambridge University Press , 2007 , £50.00. Jane Harrison and the Cambridge Ritualists, early in the twentieth century, fixed firmly in our minds the view that drama developed out of religious ritual. But how did this happen? And is the view unassailable? This important book, consisting of seventeen essays that grew out of a colloquium, is the most thorough and wide‐ranging attempt for surprisingly many years to address these and related questions. I cannot imagine a better introduction to the topic than the editors' introduction, which not only covers the history of relevant scholarship, but also surveys the contributions the various kinds of evidence can make. This is followed by three chapters on what archaic Greek vases can tell us about the origins of drama. These three chapters are topped and tailed by a brief introduction and a longer ‘discussion’ of points raised by the main essays. The whole book is richly illustrated, but naturally this section contains proportionally more images than other sections. The writers focus especially on vases that depict ‘komasts’– strange, padded, dancing figures that occur on a large number of Corinthian and other vases, which metamorphosed into somewhat more elegant

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