Euripides outside Athens
Abstract
Oliver Taplin 1 has recently taken a fresh and challenging look at what we can learn from vase paintings about responses to the theatre in the Greek cities of South Italy and Sicily from the fifth to the third centuries b.c . It is not a new idea, of course, that other cities were powerfully attracted by the drama, as by the visual art, of Athens, but what needs to be stressed, as Taplin rightly claims, is the fact that the process begins so early, spreads so widely and involves both tragedy and comedy. My concern in this paper is with the spread of tragedy outside Athens – not only in the West – in the fifth century.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Classical Antiquity Studies
Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
Classical Philosophy and Thought
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 364–372
- Publication date
- 27 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter