. The Greek theater and its drama. edy with Special Reference to the Greek Tragedians (1910), and The Dramasand Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races in Special Reference to the Origin ofGreek Tragedy (1915), reviewed by Flickinger in Classical Weekly, XI (1918),107 ff.; Nilsson, Der Ursprung der ,yNeiiejTtfrrbucher fiir das klassischeAherlum, XXVII (1911), 609 ff. and 673 Jane^ Harrison, Themis, a Study ofthe Social Origins of Greek Religion (1912); Murray, The iOtual Forms Preservedin Greek Tragedy, in Miss Harrisons Themis, pp. 341 ff.; FHckinger, Tragedyand Satyric Drama, Cla
. The Greek theater and its drama. edy with Special Reference to the Greek Tragedians (1910), and The Dramasand Dramatic Dances of Non-European Races in Special Reference to the Origin ofGreek Tragedy (1915), reviewed by Flickinger in Classical Weekly, XI (1918),107 ff.; Nilsson, Der Ursprung der ,yNeiiejTtfrrbucher fiir das klassischeAherlum, XXVII (1911), 609 ff. and 673 Jane^ Harrison, Themis, a Study ofthe Social Origins of Greek Religion (1912); Murray, The iOtual Forms Preservedin Greek Tragedy, in Miss Harrisons Themis, pp. 341 ff.; FHckinger, Tragedyand Satyric Drama, Classical Philology, VIII (1913), 261 ff.; and Cook, Zeus,a Study in Ancient Religion, I (1914), 665 ff. and 695 ff. il \\JU\j INTRODUCTION In recent years, essential supports of this doctrine haveslowly crumbled away before searching investigation; atpresent, scarcely a single clause in the foregoing sketch wouldescape unchallenged by some scholar of deserved standing. Anever-increasing number of students believe that tragedy is not. Fig. 2.—Sketch Map of Attica and the Peloponnesus, Showing Early Centersof Dramatic Activities in Greece. the child of the satyr-play, but that the two are separate in their /origin. Unfortunately, however, these dissenters, including suchThen as~ Dr. Emil Reisch of Vienna, Mr. Pickard-Cambridge ofOxford, Professor Wilhelm Schmid of Tubingen, and ProfessorWilHam Ridgeway of Cambridge, though they are unanimous inrejecting Welckers hypothesis, cannot agree among themselves^as to a constructive policy. My own view is that tragedy and jfsatyric drama are independent offshoots of the same literary y 4 THE GREEK THEATER AND ITS DRAMA ^L i type, the Peloponnesian dithyramb/ The former came to Athens from Corinth and Sicyon by way of Icaria. Somewhat l^later the latter was introduced directly from Phlius by Pratinas, a native of that place. My reasons for these opinions will develop in the course of the discussion. Very recently, notable efforts have been
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