Together we are stronger: Sophocles' treatise "On the Chorus"

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5965/1414573102512024e0114

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coralities, Sophocles, dramaturgy

Abstract

This paper proposes a detailed study of the implications of a treatise on choirs attributed to Sophocles. In this lost work, the focus was on choral activity, understood through the confrontation between tradition and its renewal. Based on the indirect references to Sophocles' career and dramaturgy found in authors and works from antiquity, the aim was to make understandable the performative contexts that best clarify Sophocles' possible ideas and arguments.

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Author Biography

Marcus Mota, Universidade de Brasília

Pós-doutorado na Universidade de Lisboa – Portugal. Doutorado em História na Universidade de Brasília (UnB). Mestrado em Literatura na UnB. Vínculo profissional com a Universidade de Lisboa – Portugal. Prof. Dr. Universidade de Brasília (UnB).

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Published

2024-07-24

How to Cite

MOTA, Marcus. Together we are stronger: Sophocles’ treatise "On the Chorus". Urdimento: Revista de Estudos em Artes Cênicas, Florianópolis, v. 2, n. 51, p. 1–27, 2024. DOI: 10.5965/1414573102512024e0114. Disponível em: https://revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/article/view/25532. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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