Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era

Acting Gods, Playing Heroes, and the Interaction between Judaism, Christianity, and Greek Drama in the Early Common Era

Friesen, Courtney J. P.

Taylor & Francis Ltd

12/2024

166

Mole

9781032491035

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1. Theater and/as Ritual: Introduction to the State of the Question(s) and Scope of the Study; 2. A Tale of Two Cities' Theaters: From Athens to Jerusalem; 3. The Drama of Debating Gods (and Their Existence): Lucian of Samosata and Philo of Alexandria on Creation and Providence; 4. Gods on Stage and Gods in Heaven: Fragments of Atheism in Sextus Empiricus and Pseudo-Justin; 5. Laughing at/with Heracles: Philo of Alexandria on Freedom and Virtue; 6. Atonement and Resurrection as the Denouement of Euripides' Alcestis; 7. From Tragic Heroines to Religious Martyrs: The Afterlife of Polyxena between Philo and Clement of Alexandria; 8. Deus ex Machina: Concluding Thoughts on Dramatic Closure.
Greco-Roman theatre;Greek drama;Roman drama;Greco-Roman literature;Early Christianity;Ancient Judaism;Classical drama;Classical performance;Classical reception;Late Antiquity;Early Common Era;Scaenae Frons;Cicero's De Natura Deorum;Re-performance Signals;Young Men;Greco Roman Theatre;Legatio Ad Gaium;Greco Roman Literature;De Aeternitate Mundi;Satyr Play;De Monarchia;Aelia Capitolina;Alamy Stock Photo;Hagia Eirene;Adversus Mathematicos;Chronicon Paschale;Lucian's Epicurean;Substitutionary Death;Vicarious Death;Lord's Day;Dio Chrysostom;Holy Man;Sextus Empiricus;Adventus Domini;Freed Women