The Dramatic Festivals of Athens

by Arthur W. Pickard-Cambridge, John Gould (Editor), D.M. Lewis (Editor)

This reissue with a new supplement is fully expanded and brought up-to-date. It discusses the organization of the dramatic festivals, describes the acting style, actors, costumes, dancing, music, and audiences' tastes and behavior, and provides a full presentation of the literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence on which any discussion of the dramatic festivals is based, such as the difficulties of interpretation.

Genres: Nonfiction

392 pages, Hardcover

First published January 12, 1989