Plague and the Athenian Imagination

Robin (Temple University, Philadelphia) Mitchell-Boyask

Cambridge University Press, 2007

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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
9780521873451
ISBN-10
0521873452
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2007
Publication date
2007-12-13
Pages
224
Dimensions
229x152x16
Weight
492