TY  - BOOK
AU  - Billings,Joshua
TI  - The Philosophical Stage: Drama and Dialectic in Classical Athens 
SN  - 9780691211114
AV  - PA3136 
U1  - 882/.0109384 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Greek drama
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Philosophy in literature
KW  - DRAMA / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aeschylus
KW  - Agnosticism
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Allusion
KW  - Ambiguity
KW  - Aristophanes
KW  - Atheism
KW  - Callicles
KW  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Citation
KW  - Copyright
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Determination
KW  - Dialectic
KW  - Dialogic
KW  - Dionysus
KW  - Dissoi logoi
KW  - Empedocles
KW  - Essay
KW  - Euripides
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Generosity
KW  - Gorgias
KW  - Greek tragedy
KW  - Hesiod
KW  - Hippias
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Inception
KW  - Intellectual history
KW  - Irony
KW  - Literature
KW  - Myth
KW  - Narrative
KW  - Odysseus
KW  - Oreste
KW  - Palamedes (Arthurian legend)
KW  - Parody
KW  - Pentheus
KW  - Philoctetes
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Plato
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Prodicus
KW  - Prometheus Bound
KW  - Prose
KW  - Prosopopoeia
KW  - Protagoras (dialogue)
KW  - Protagoras
KW  - Pythagoreanism
KW  - Reason
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Socratic
KW  - Sophist
KW  - Sophocles
KW  - Stasimon
KW  - Suggestion
KW  - Superiority (short story)
KW  - Teleology
KW  - The Bacchae
KW  - The Persians
KW  - The Various
KW  - Theism
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thought
KW  - Tragedy
KW  - Uncertainty
KW  - Writing
KW  - Xenophanes
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Note on the Text --; Introduction: Tragedy in the Philosophical Age of the Greeks --; 1 Catalogs and Culture --; 2 Intrigue and Ontology --; 3 Agōn and Authority --; Conclusion: The Stages of Early Greek Thought --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinkingThe Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at the heart of intellectual history. Drawing on evidence from tragedy and comedy, Joshua Billings shines new light on the development of early Greek philosophy, arguing that drama is our best source for understanding the intellectual culture of classical Athens.In this incisive book, Billings recasts classical Greek intellectual history as a conversation across discourses and demonstrates the significance of dramatic reflections on widely shared theoretical questions. He argues that neither ";literature"; nor ";philosophy"; was a defined category in the fifth century BCE, and develops a method of reading dramatic form as a structured investigation of issues at the heart of the emerging discipline of philosophy.A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today’s most original classical scholars, The Philosophical Stage presents a novel approach to ancient drama and sets a path for a renewed understanding of early Greek thought
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691211114?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691211114
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691211114/original
ER  -