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Book Synopsis Achilles in Greek Tragedy by : Pantelis Michelakis
Download or read book Achilles in Greek Tragedy written by Pantelis Michelakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the tragic dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address the concerns of their time.
Book Synopsis Achilles in Greek Tragedy by : Pantelis Michelakis
Download or read book Achilles in Greek Tragedy written by Pantelis Michelakis and published by . This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology was imagined on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Dr Michelakis argues that dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address concerns of their time, from heroism and education to individualism and gender. Whether an aristocrat, a dead warrior or a young man, the tragic Achilles serves as a receptacle for competing definitions of heroism, oscillating between presence and absence, the exceptional and the paradigmatic. Tragedy draws on Achilles to display and pit against one another contrasting views of the mythological self and of its rights and obligations, powers and limitations. The book considers the whole corpus of extant Greek tragedy, with particular attention paid to Aeschylus' Myrmidons and Euripides' Hecuba and Iphigenia at Aulis.
Download or read book Aias written by Sophocles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles' play is a famous retelling of Aias's (Ajax's) demise. After the armor is awarded to Odysseus, Aias feels so insulted that he wants to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. Athena intervenes and clouds his mind and vision, and he goes to a flock of sheep and slaughters them, imagining they are the Achaean leaders, including Odysseus and Agamemnon. When he comes to his senses, covered in blood, he realizes that what he has done has diminished his honor, and decides that he prefers to kill himself rather than live in shame.
Book Synopsis The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy by : William Stuart Messer
Download or read book The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy written by William Stuart Messer and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines aspects of the dream in Homer and Greek tragedies as an originating cause or impetus of the action in a poem or play.
Download or read book Specimens of Greek Tragedy written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy by : Richmond Alexander Lattimore
Download or read book Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy written by Richmond Alexander Lattimore and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Song of Achilles by : Madeline Miller
Download or read book The Song of Achilles written by Madeline Miller and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by Gilbert Norwood and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City by : Antony Augoustakis
Download or read book Screening Love and War in Troy: Fall of a City written by Antony Augoustakis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and film studies discuss how the story of Troy has been recreated on screen to suit the expectations of modern audiences. The series is commended for the thought-provoking way it handles important issues arising from the Trojan War narrative that continue to impact our society today. With discussions centered on epic narrative, cast and character, as well as tragic resonances, the contributors tackle gender roles by exploring the innovative ways in which mythological female figures such as Helen, Aphrodite and the Amazons are depicted in the series. An examination is also made into the concept of the hero and how the series challenges conventional representations of masculinity. We encounter a significant investigation of race focusing on the controversial casting of Achilles, Patroclus, Zeus and other series characters with Black actors. Several essays deal with the moral and ethical complexities surrounding warfare, power and politics. The significance of costume and production design are also explored throughout the volume.
Download or read book The Ajax Dilemma written by Paul Woodruff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out. In The Ajax Dilemma, Paul Woodruff examines one of today's most pressing moral issues: how to distribute rewards and public recognition without damaging the social fabric. How should we honor those whose behavior and achievement is essential to our overall success? Is it fair or right to lavish rewards on the superstar at the expense of the hardworking rank-and-file? How do we distinguish an impartial fairness from what is truly just? Woodruff builds his answer to these questions around the ancient conflict between Ajax and Odysseus over the armor of the slain warrior Achilles. King Agamemnon arranges a speech contest to decide the issue. Ajax, the loyal workhorse, loses the contest, and the priceless armor, to Odysseus, the brilliantly deceptive strategist who will lead the Greeks to victory. Deeply insulted, Ajax goes on a rampage and commits suicide, and in his rage we see the resentment of every loyal worker who has been passed over in favor of those who are more gifted, or whose skills are more highly valued. How should we deal with the "Ajax dilemma"? Woodruff argues that while we can never create a perfect system for distributing just rewards, we can recognize the essential role that wisdom, compassion, moderation, and respect must play if we are to restore the basic sense of justice on which all communities depend. This short, thoughtful book, written with Woodruff's characteristic elegance, investigates some of the most bitterly divisive issues in American today.
Book Synopsis Children of Achilles by : John Freely
Download or read book Children of Achilles written by John Freely and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek presence in Anatolia, beginning with the Trojan War and culminating in 1923 with the devastating population exchange that followed the Turkish War of Independence. The once magnificent, now ruined, cities that cluster along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey are reminders of a civilization that produced the first Hellenic enlightenment, giving birth to Homer, Herodotus and the first philosophers of nature. For more three millennia the Anatolian Greeks preserved their identity and culture as the tides of history washed over them, enduring conflicts that historians since Herodotus have seen as an unending clash of civilizations between East and West. Today, the memory of the Greek diaspora from Asia Minor lives on in the music of rebetika, the threnodies known as amanadas, and the poetry of Seferis, and even now the descendants of those exiles speak with nostalgia of 'i kath'imas Anatoli' - our own Anatolia, their lost homeland. This, told for the first time, is their story, from glorious beginnings to a bitter end, a story that continues to echo through the ages and across continents.
Book Synopsis The Anger of Achilles by : Leonard Charles Muellner
Download or read book The Anger of Achilles written by Leonard Charles Muellner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menis means more than an individual's emotional response. On the basis of the epic exemplifications of the word, Muellner defines the term as a cosmic sanction against behavior that violates the most basic rules of human society. Virtually absent from the Odyssey, the term menis appears in the Iliad in conjunction with the enforcement of social rules, especially the rules of reciprocal exchange. To understand the way menis functions, Muellner invokes the concept of tabu developed by Mary Douglas, stressing both the power and the danger that accrue to a person who violates such rules. Transgressive behavior has both a creative and a destructive aspect.
Book Synopsis The Theater of War by : Bryan Doerries
Download or read book The Theater of War written by Bryan Doerries and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted. Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and returned soldiers, people in recovery from alcohol and substance abuse, tornado and hurricane survivors, and more. Tracing a path that links the personal to the artistic to the social and back again, Doerries shows us how suffering and healing are part of a timeless process in which dialogue and empathy are inextricably linked. The originality and generosity of Doerries’s work is startling, and The Theater of War—wholly unsentimental, but intensely felt and emotionally engaging—is a humane, knowledgeable, and accessible book that will both inspire and enlighten.
Book Synopsis Greek Tragedy by : Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iphigenia at Aulis written by Euripides and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 2017 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First English edition with commentary on one of Euripides' finest texts for 125 years, comprising two volumes sold together as a set (Volume 1: Introduction, Text and Translation; Volume 2: Commentary and Indexes).
Download or read book The Iliad written by Homer and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Living Art of Greek Tragedy by : Marianne McDonald
Download or read book The Living Art of Greek Tragedy written by Marianne McDonald and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living performance tradition of Greek tragedy. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy is indispensable for anyone interested in performing Greek drama, and McDonald's engaging descriptions offer the necessary background to all those who desire to know more about the ancient world. With a chapter on each of the three major Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides), McDonald provides a balance of textual analysis, practical knowledge of the theatre, and an experienced look at the difficulties and accomplishments of theatrical performances. She shows how ancient Greek tragedy, long a part of the standard repertoire of theatre companies throughout the world, remains fresh and alive for contemporary audiences.
