Plague and the Athenian Imagination

Robin (Temple University, Philadelphia) Mitchell-Boyask

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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This book investigates the effect of the great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. It proposes a significant relationship between the new Temple of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus.

ISBN-13
9780521296373
ISBN-10
0521296374
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
Publication date
2011-06-30
Pages
224
Dimensions
152x228x18
Weight
354