Research program
Ancient Greek theatre: text, staging, reception
University Co-ordinator
Università degli Studi di LECCE -
FILOLOGIA CLASSICA E SCIENZE FILOSOFICHE - LECCE(LE)
Research Unit Leader
Onofrio VOX
Description
To contribute to the general program relating to "ANCIENT GREEK THEATRE: TEXT, STAGE, RECEPTION", this research Unity aims to investigate the connection between reception and tradition of Euripidean drama, focusing the interest in some stages of its wide and long-lasting reception, which are also important to its tradition. The main purpose of this research will be to analyze the Euripidean reception in the following periods or fields: a. in IV century B. C., in particular comparing the literary (and epigraphical) testimonia, such as quotations in Attic orators or echoes in Menandrean comedy, with iconographic information available through vase-paintings; b. in the Hellenistic poetry, first of all in Callimachus and Apollonius Rhodius, on which the Unit manager has been working for a long time, and in epigrams; c. on the archaic Roman stage. d. In addition to this, the research will concern the reception not only of the Euripidean drama but also of Euripidean biography in literature relating to philosophic doxography and biography, e. g. in Diogenes Laertius. e. Moreover this research Unity will at least sound Greek texts from imperial age and late antiquity, such as Babrius, Lucian, Flavius Philostratus, and Greek novel (others, like Athenaeus or Plutarch, will be target of research by other connected Units), going as far as the Byzantine scholars Eustathius and Tzetzes.The research work will develop in two main phases: a. survey of the above mentioned texts, and collection of ancient testimonia on Euripidean reception, b. exegesis of the so gathered testimonia. The work, finally, will lead to publish essays, miscellaneous books, and commentaries on some of Euripidean tragedies, which, fragmentary known today, were popular in antiquity.
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