Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: UNEXPECTED 8 This position is defended in D. J. Mastronarde, 'Actors on high: the skene roof, the crane, and the gods in Attic drama', ClAnt 9 (1990), 247-94.9 So A.W. Pickard-Cambridge, The Theatre of Dionysus at Athens (Oxford, 1946), 48-9; Mastronarde (n.8), 278, 282-3 agrees that a concealed door is needed if Athene is at ground level.The staging of Athene's entrance is also discussed in D. Fitzpatrick, 'Initial entrances in three Sophoclean tragedies', in L. Hardwick et al. (edd.),Theatre Ancient and Modern (Milton Keynes, 2000), 137-52.10 At what point she does so is uncertain.Since Odysseus uses a generalizing conditional at 15, it is not certain that Athene is still invisible to him (cf.M. Heath, The Poetics of Greek Tragedy (London, 1987), 165-6, although the staging proposed there needs modification in the light of the present discussion).
Source: The Classical Quarterly
Authors: MALCOLM HEATH, ELEANOR OKELL
Institutions: University of Leeds, Durham University
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2090759152