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Table of Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Abbreviations and Conventions Editors' Preface 1. General Introduction, E. Csapo and M. C. Miller I. Komasts and Pre-dramatic Ritual 2. Introduction, T.H. Carpenter 3. The Corpus of Komast Vases: From Identity to Exegesis, T.J. Smith 4. Komasts, Mythic Imaginary, and Ritual, C. Isler-Kerényi 5. Let's Hear it for the Fat Man. Padded Dancers and the Prehistory of Drama, J.R. Green 6. Discussion, T.H. Carpenter II. Emergence of Drama 7. Introduction and Discussion, G. Nagy 8. From Hymn to Tragedy: Aristotle's Genealogy of Poetic Kinds, D. Depew 9. Myths of Ritual in Athenian Vase-Paintings of Silens, G. Hedreen 10. From Ritual to Narrative, M. Steinhart 11. "And Now All the World Shall Dance!" (Eur. Bacch. 114): Dionysus' choroi between Drama and Ritual, B. Kowalzig III. Comparing Other Cultures 12. Introduction, K.C. Patton 13. Ritual Drama in Ancient Egypt, R.J. Leprohon 14. Ritual and Performance, Dance and Drama in Ancient Japan, G. Zobel 15. Representation in European Devotional Rituals: The Question of the Origin of Medieval Drama in Medieval Liturgy, N.H. Petersen 16. Discussion, K.C. Patton IV. From Ritual to Drama 17. From Ritual to Drama: A Concluding Statement, R. Seaford Bibliography Indices
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Classical drama -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Theater -- History -- To 500.
Theater -- Greece.
Rites and ceremonies -- Greece.
Civilization, Ancient.