{"id":150,"date":"2015-08-24T13:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T20:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/?p=150"},"modified":"2017-05-06T00:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T07:05:57","slug":"greek-satyr-play-by-mark-griffith-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Greek Satyr Play by Mark Griffith now available"},"content":{"rendered":"

CCS is pleased to announce the publication on August 23, 2015, of Mark Griffith, Greek Satyr Play: Five Studies<\/em>. The POD paperback, ISBN 9781939926043, is available now for $29.95 at this link<\/a>, and should\u00a0be available through other channels by late September. An ePub version should be for sale\u00a0shortly. [Update: the ePub version is now for sale for $14.95 at this link<\/a>\u00a0and should be available through other channels in about 8 weeks.]<\/p>\n

Like all CCS volumes, Greek Satyr Play is immediately available for open-access page view at eScholarship.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With a new introduction and some revisions, these five essays on Classical Greek satyr plays, originally published in various venues between 2002 and 2010, suggest new critical approaches to this important dramatic genre and identify previously neglected dimensions and dynamics within their original Athenian context. Griffith shows that satyr plays, alongside the ludicrous and irresponsible\u2014but harmless\u2014antics of their chorus, presented their audiences with culturally sophisticated narratives of romance, escapist adventure, and musical-choreographic exuberance, amounting to a \u201cparallel universe\u201d to that of the accompanying tragedies in the City Dionysia festival. The class oppositions between heroic\/divine characters and the rest (choruses, messengers, servants, etc.) that are so integral to Athenian tragedy are shown to be present also, in exaggerated form, in satyr drama, with the satyr chorus occupying a role that also inevitably recalled for the Athenian audiences their own (often foreign-born) slaves. Meanwhile the familiar main characters of tragedy (Heracles, Danae and Perseus, Hermes and Apollo, Achilles, Odysseus, etc.) are re-deployed in an engaging milieu of erotic encounters, miraculous discoveries, guaranteed happy endings, marriages, and painless release from suffering for all\u2014both for the well-behaved heroes and also for the low-life, playful satyrs (the \u201cslaves of Dionysus\u201d). In their fusion of adventure and romance, fantasy and na\u00efvet\u00e9, Aphrodite and Dionysus, Athenian satyr plays thus anticipate in many respects, Griffith suggests, the later developments of Greek pastoral and prose romance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CCS is pleased to announce the publication on August 23, 2015, of Mark Griffith, Greek Satyr Play: Five Studies. The POD paperback, ISBN 9781939926043, is available now for $29.95 at this link, and should\u00a0be available through other channels by late … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calclassicalstudies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}