Euripides And The Instruction Of The Athenians

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Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians

Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027700
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians written by Justina Gregory and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political by its very nature, Greek tragedy reflects on how life should be lived in the polis, and especially the polis that was democratic Athens. Instructional as well, drama frequently concerns itself with the audience's moral education. Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians draws on these political and didactic functions of tragedy for a close analysis of five plays: Alcestis, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Heracles, and Trojan Women. Clearly written and persuasively argued, this volume addresses itself to all who are interested in Greek tragedy. Nonspecialists and scholars alike will deepen their understanding of this complex writer and the tumultuous period in which he lived. ". . . a lucid presentation of the positive side of Euripidean tragedy, and a thoughtful reminder of the political implications of Greek tragedy." --American Journal of Philology ". . . the principal defect of [this] otherwise excellent study is that it is too short." --Erich Segal, Classical Review ". . . a most stimulating book throughout . . . ." --Greece and Rome Justina Gregory is Professor of Classics, Smith College, where she is head of the department. She has been the recipient of Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships.

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

Author : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136787992
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece written by Nigel Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.

Euripides

Author : John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides written by John Pentland Mahaffy and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cheiron's Way

Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190857897
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Cheiron's Way written by Justina Gregory and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic and tragedy, early education figures significantly in that past. Cheiron's Way takes as its point of departure the words of Homer's Phoenix to Achilles, who claims, "I made you the man you are" as he pleads with his former pupil to let go of his anger. The book begins by exploring topics relevant to heroic and tragic education: age classes, rites of passage, verbal modes of instruction, social conditioning, mentoring, peer role models, and the controversial balance between nature and nurture. It introduces the first teacher in the Greek tradition, Cheiron the centaur, who founded a school for young heroes in his Thessalian cave and instructed Achilles, Jason, and others with mixed success. Next it turns to the Iliadic Achilles, who achieves maturity by way of successive crises-a crisis of disillusionment with the assumptions that shaped his heroic education, followed by a crisis of empathy for his adversary-and who becomes an influential prototype for tragedy. Examination of the Odyssey suggests that while Odysseus received a normative heroic upbringing and Nausicaa internalizes social expectations for young women, Telemachus is more of an outlier. In tragic representations of education Sophocles' Ajax and Neoptolemus replicate the Achillean pattern only partially and unsuccessfully, as does Euripides' Hippolytus; only Achilles and Iphigenia in Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis achieve an emotional maturity commensurate with the Iliadic Achilles'. Yet all these texts confirm, as elegantly argued in this book, the perennial lure, despite uncertain results, of the educational enterprise for communities, students, and teachers.

Euripides the Idealist

Author : Reginald Bainbridge Appleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Euripides the Idealist written by Reginald Bainbridge Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to Greek Tragedy

Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405175494
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Greek Tragedy written by Justina Gregory and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of Greek tragedy All ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and a generous and informative combined bibliography

Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas

Author : Paul Decharme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas written by Paul Decharme and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Euripides, the Rationalist

Author : Arthur Woollgar Verrall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Euripides, the Rationalist written by Arthur Woollgar Verrall and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wisdom and Folly in Euripides

Author : Poulheria Kyriakou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110453142
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Wisdom and Folly in Euripides written by Poulheria Kyriakou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major, defining polarity in Euripidean drama, wisdom and folly, has never so far been the subject of a book-length study. The volume aims at filling this gap. Virtually all Euripidean characters, from gods to slaves, are subject to some aspect of folly and claim at least some measure of wisdom. The playwright’s sophisticated handling of the tradition and the pervasive ambiguity in his work add extra layers of complexity. Wisdom and folly become inextricably intertwined, as gods pursue their agendas and mortal characters struggle to control their destiny, deal with their troubles, confront their past, and chart their future. Their amoral or immoral behavior and various limitations often affect also their families and communities. Leading international scholars discuss wisdom and folly from various thematic angles and theoretical perspectives. A final section deals with the polarity’s reception in vase-painting and literature. The result is a wealth of fresh insights into moral, social and historical issues. The volume is of interest to students and scholars of classical drama and its reception, of philosophy, and of rhetoric

Euripides and His Age

Author : Gilbert Murray
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides and His Age written by Gilbert Murray and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1913 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the volumes of this series are occupied with large subjects and subjects commonly recognized as important to great masses of people at the present day. In devoting the present volume to the study of a single writer, remote from us in time and civilization and scarcely known by more than name to many readers of the Library, I am moved by the belief that, quite apart from his disputed greatness as a poet and thinker, apart from his amazing and perhaps unparalleled success as a practical playwright, Euripides is a figure of high significance in the history of humanity and of special interest to our own generation. Born, according to the legend, in exile and fated to die in exile, Euripides, in whatever light one regards him, is a man of curious and ironic history. As a poet he has lived through the ages in an atmosphere of controversy, generally-though by no means always-loved by poets and despised by critics.

Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grief Lessons

Author : Euripides
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590172531
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Grief Lessons written by Euripides and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.” His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless–women and children, slaves and barbarians–for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides’ plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides’ latest tragedies. Four of those tragedies are presented here in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”

Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Political Plays of Euripides

Author : Günther Zuntz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Plays of Euripides written by Günther Zuntz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hippolytus of Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Hippolytus of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why Athens?

Author : D. M. Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199562326
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Why Athens? written by D. M. Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays reconsidering Greek tragedy as a reflection of Athenian political culture. The contributors explore the role of tragedy as a distinctively Athenian cultural product and its particular relationship with the city that nurtured and hosted it.

Theseus, Tragedy, and the Athenian Empire

Author : Sophie Mills
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198150633
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Theseus, Tragedy, and the Athenian Empire written by Sophie Mills and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of the Theseus myth and its importance for Athens. Mills examines all extant tragedies in which Theseus appear in order to assess the significance of his role as mythological representative of Athenian greatness. She argues that the Theseus of most Athenian tragedy is carefully drawn to exemplify the idealized image of the Athenian "national character" that was prevalent in the age of the empire.