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Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius Mitchell-Boyask, Robin (Temple University, Philadelphia)
Plague and the Athenian Imagination: Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius
Mitchell-Boyask, Robin (Temple University, Philadelphia)
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.
224 pages, 1 plan
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 13, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521873451 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 16 mm · 492 g |
| Language | English |