Plays for export (Production of Athenian drama in Magna Graecia at the endof the 5th and the beginning of the 4th century B.C.)

Authors
Dearden, C
Citation
C. Dearden, Plays for export (Production of Athenian drama in Magna Graecia at the endof the 5th and the beginning of the 4th century B.C.), PHOENIX-CAN, 53(3-4), 1999, pp. 222-248
Citations number
108
Categorie Soggetti
Classical Studies
Journal title
PHOENIX-THE JOURNAL OF THE CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
ISSN journal
00318299 → ACNP
Volume
53
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
222 - 248
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-8299(199923)53:3-4<222:PFE(OA>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
This paper examines possible reasons and mechanisms for the export of plays from Athens to Magna Graecia in the late-fifth and early-fourth century BC . It then considers the vase painting evidence and the implications to be d rawn from that.