Ancient Greek Drama Literature

Resources relating to the course curriculum, including background materials, study guides for major tragic and comic works, and links to secondary materials on ancient plays and Athenian culture.

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• Greek Dramatic Criticism - An overview of dramatic criticism in ancient Greece.
• Temple University: Greek Drama and Culture - Resources relating to the course curriculum, including background materials, study guides for major tragic and comic works, and links to secondary materials on ancient plays and Athenian culture.
• Greek Theatre Index - Index of articles on ancient Greek theatre.
• Aristotle, Classic Technique, and Greek Drama - An analysis of the beginnings of dramatic criticism, drama focusing on the principles of Aristotle.
• Ridgeway's Theory of the Origin of Tragedy - Treatise suggesting that Greek Theatre evolved not from the Dionysian literature festivals, but rather from ancient worship of the dead.
• Solar Myths, Tree Spirits, and Totems - William Ridgeway\\'s 1915 essay examining the history and literature importance of ancient greek solar myths, tree spirits, and totemism literature in the development of ancient greek Greek tragedy.
• Project Perseus: Texts and Translations - Scholarly Greek text with English translations, including nearly drama all the drama surviving Greek dramas.
• Poems by Greek Dramatists - An index of poems by the dramatists of literature ancient Greece.

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