I had to re-download my keyman Greek a while back, when my hard drive got wiped clean. I ended up with a slightly different version than before, with the result that I still haven't figured out how to do iota subscript.
I think I'm tracking you on the masks. Even if Ajax can be distinguished from Agamemnon, they're still both something on the order of 'stock characters' (in spite of the fact that Euripides' Agamemnon is not the same as Aeschylus'). Masks in New Comedy will just be specific to a type, rather than an individual (e.g. the adolescens), leaving all the characterization, if there is any, to be done via text/dialogue. Performance was apparently rather stylized, too, which might have the effect of simultaneously making the characters less individualized and more distanced from the audience. Not sure what to think about that.
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Date: 2010-02-24 03:36 (UTC)I think I'm tracking you on the masks. Even if Ajax can be distinguished from Agamemnon, they're still both something on the order of 'stock characters' (in spite of the fact that Euripides' Agamemnon is not the same as Aeschylus'). Masks in New Comedy will just be specific to a type, rather than an individual (e.g. the adolescens), leaving all the characterization, if there is any, to be done via text/dialogue. Performance was apparently rather stylized, too, which might have the effect of simultaneously making the characters less individualized and more distanced from the audience. Not sure what to think about that.