CLST 312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Parian Chronicle, De Architectura, Euripides
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Jeff 116 (tragedy), watson 217 (comedy), jeff 422 (melodrama) wednesday. Exact quotations of the text in later other texts. Any kind of rewriting of the text, either by author himself or by others. Sometimes notes were taken in the manuscripts of playwrights. Introductions (hypotheses) to tragedies of aeschylus, sophocles, and euripides written by grammarians, philologists, and commentators in hellenistic period. Parian chronical or parian marble: chronology: combines dates of mythic and historic origin so it can be used but with a grain of salt. Ancient writers (in chronological order from 400s bc to 2nd c. ad) Aristotle: poetics: he was great because he wrote about everything because he had an opinion a(cid:271)out e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g (cid:271)ut, that (cid:373)ea(cid:374)t he (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t (cid:448)ery o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e. Marcus vitruvius pollio: ten books on architecture (de architectura) Julius pollux: onomastikon: offers many hints to costumes and masks that were used. If you are a costume designer, look at this.