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Author : John Arthur Vella
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Nature, Reason and Philia in Euripidean Drama written by John Arthur Vella and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Author : Desmond J. Conacher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442637595
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Euripidean Drama written by Desmond J. Conacher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1967-12-15 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a commonly held view among historians of Greek literature that with the advent of Euripides the tragic structure, even the tragic outlook of Greek drama suffered a breakdown from which it never recovered. While there is much truth in this opinion, it has tended to put too much emphasis on "Euripides the destroyer" rather than "Euripides the creator." In this study the author's main purpose is to redress the balance and to discuss the structure and techniques of Euripidean drama in relation to its new and richly varied themes. The consistent dramatic form evolved by Aeschylus and Sophocles had grown out of their conception of tragedy as the resultant of the tension between the individual will and the universal order suggested in myth. For Euripides, who never fully accepted myth as the real basis of tragedy, alternate ways of using the traditional material became necessary, and the playwright continually changed his dramatic structure to suit the particular tragic idea he was seeking to express. Viewed in this way, Euripides' dramatic technique may be seen in positive as well as negative terms—as something other than the breakdown of structural technique and mythological insight under the overwhelming force of his ideas. Professor Conacher offers here a new view of Euripides as the first Greek dramatist properly to understand the world of myth, and so, in a sense, to stand a bit outside it. He shows how Euripides, far from being an impatient or incompetent craftsman, used traditional mth as a basis for inventing new forms in which to cast his perceptions of the sources of human tragedy. All the extant Euripidean drama is examined in this book; the result is an intelligent guide to the plays for all students of dramatic literature, as well as a convincing defence of Euripides the creator.
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Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Review of Metaphysics written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Synnøve Des Bouvrie
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763545952
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Tragic Workings in Euripides' Drama written by Synnøve Des Bouvrie and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragic Workings in Euripides? Drama' offers a substantially new theory and method for understanding Attic tragedy. Starting from anthropological insights, and drawing on Aristotle?s theory of the specific ?tragic? reactions of ?shock and horror? as well as his propositions on the ?tragic? violation of fundamental social values, Des Bouvrie argues that the participating community in fifth-century Greece, for instance at the Dionysia, the Athenian dramatic festival, assembled as a collective body engaging in a program of ?prescribed sentiments.? She identifies this program as a ?tragic process? that mobilized the audience into revitalizing their institutional order, the unquestionable values sustaining the oikos and preserving the polis.00Des Bouvrie?s novel, not to say revolutionary, and explicitly ?anthropological? approach, consists in focusing primarily on the ?tragic workings? of Attic tragedy. While Euripides is singled out ? with astute readings of Heracleidae, Andromache, Hecuba, Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia in Tauris and Iphigenia at Aulis on offer - the author?s earlier work on other Greek tragedians suggests that these features were operating in the genre as such. For students and scholars interested in ancient Greek tragedy, this volume constitutes a remarkable contribution. It will significantly further studies of the tragic genre as well as stimulate new debate.
Author : John M. Cooper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223262
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Reason and Emotion written by John M. Cooper and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together twenty-three distinctive and influential essays on ancient moral philosophy--including several published here for the first time--by the distinguished philosopher and classical scholar John Cooper. The volume gives a systematic account of many of the most important issues and texts in ancient moral psychology and ethical theory, providing a unified and illuminating way of reflecting on the fields as they developed from Socrates and Plato through Aristotle to Epicurus and the Stoic philosophers Chrysippus and Posidonius, and beyond. For the ancient philosophers, Cooper shows here, morality was "good character" and what that entailed: good judgment, sensitivity, openness, reflectiveness, and a secure and correct sense of who one was and how one stood in relation to others and the surrounding world. Ethical theory was about the best way to be rather than any principles for what to do in particular circumstances or in relation to recurrent temptations. Moral psychology was the study of the psychological conditions required for good character--the sorts of desires, the attitudes to self and others, the states of mind and feeling, the kinds of knowledge and insight. Together these papers illustrate brilliantly how, by studying the arguments of the Greek philosophers in their diverse theories about the best human life and its psychological underpinnings, we can expand our own moral understanding and imagination and enrich our own moral thought. The collection will be crucial reading for anyone interested in classical philosophy and what it can contribute to reflection on contemporary questions about ethics and human life.
Author : Robert E. Meagher
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780865165137
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (651 download)
Download or read book The Essential Euripides written by Robert E. Meagher and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- A monograph on Euripides entitled "Mortal Vision: the Wisdom of Euripides" -- Five plays in translation: Hekabe, Helen, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Bakkhai -- A concluding essay entitled "Revel and Revelation: the Poetics of Euripi
Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107393779
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Fragility of Goodness written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have received the attention they deserve. This book thus recovers a central dimension of Greek thought and addresses major issues in contemporary ethical theory. One of its most original aspects is its interrelated treatment of both literary and philosophical texts. The Fragility of Goodness has proven to be important reading for philosophers and classicists, and its non-technical style makes it accessible to any educated person interested in the difficult problems it tackles. This edition, first published in 2001, features a preface by Martha Nussbaum.
Author : Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435352
Total Pages : 1227 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Brill's Companion to Euripides (2 vols) written by Andreas Markantonatos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 1227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.
Author : Christopher Collard
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1908343354
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Euripides written by Christopher Collard and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them, aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and half-way to comedy, it burlesqued heroic and tragic myth, frequently that just dramatised and performed in the tragedies. Euripides' Cyclops is the only satyr-play which survives complete. It is generally held to be the poet's late work, but its companion tragedies are not identifiable. Its title alone signals its content, Odysseus' escape from the one-eyed, man-eating monster, familiar from Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Because of its uniqueness, Cyclops could afford only a limited idea of satyric drama's range, which the many but brief quotations from other authors and plays barely coloured. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genre have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th Century of considerable fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides' predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary – but not, so far, of Euripides himself. This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. It includes not only the major papyri, but very many shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd Centuries; there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable.
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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 147251985X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Law and Drama in Ancient Greece written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between law and literature is rich and complex. In the past three and half decades, the topic has received much attention from literary critics and legal scholars studying modern literature. Despite the prominence of law and justice in Ancient Greek literature, there has been little interest among Classical scholars in the connections between law and drama. This is the first collection of essays to approach Greek tragedy and comedy from a legal perspective. The volume does not claim to provide an exhaustive treatment of law and literature in ancient Greece. Rather it provides a sample of different approaches to the topic. Some essays show how knowledge of Athenian law enhances our understanding of individual passages in Attic drama and the mimes of Herodas and enriches our appreciation of dramatic techniques. Other essays examine the information provided about legal procedure found in Aristophanes' comedies or the views about the role of law in society expressed in Attic drama. The collection reveals reveal how the study of law and legal procedure can enhance our understanding of ancient drama and bring new insights to the interpretation of individual plays.
Author : Mae J. Smethurst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739172425
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh written by Mae J. Smethurst and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ramifications of understanding the similarities and differences between the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles and realistic Japanese noh. First, it looks at the relationship of Aristotle's definition of tragedy to the tragedies he favored. Next, his definition is applied to realistic noh, in order to show how they do and do not conform to his definition. In the third and fourth chapters, the focus moves to those junctures in the dramas that Aristotle considered crucial to a complex plot - recognitions and sudden reversals -, and shows how they are presented in performance. Chapter 3 examines the climactic moments of realistic noh and demonstrates that it is at precisely these moments that a third actor becomes involved in the dialogue or that an actor in various ways steps out of character. Chapter 4 explores how plays by Euripides and Sophocles deal with critical turns in the plot, as Aristotle defined it. It is not by an actor stepping out of character, but by the playwright's involvement of the third actor in the dialogue. The argument of this book reveals a similar symbiosis between plot and performance in both dramatic forms. By looking at noh through the lens of Aristotle and two Greek tragedies that he favored, the book uncovers first an Aristotelian plot structure in realistic noh and the relationship between the crucial points in the plot and its performance; and on the Greek side, looking at the tragedies through the lens of noh suggests a hitherto unnoticed relationship between the structure of the tragedies and their performance, that is, the involvement of the third actor at the climactic moments of the plot. This observation helps to account for Aristotle's view that tragedy be limited to three actors.
Author : N. T. Croally
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521464901
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Euripidean Polemic written by N. T. Croally and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out to interpret Euripides' The Trojan Women in the light of a view of tragedy which sees its function, as it was understood in classical Athens, as being didactic. This function, the author argues, was carried out by an examination of the ideology to which the audience subscribed. The Trojan Women, powerfully exploiting the dramatic context of the aftermath of the Trojan War, is a remarkable example of tragic teaching. The play questions a series of mutually reinforcing polarities (man/god; man/woman; Greek/barbarian; free/slave) through which an Athenian citizen defined himself, and also examines the dangers of rhetoric and the value of victory in war. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of interpretation, the author is able to offer a coherent view of a number of long-standing problems in Euripidean and tragic criticism, namely the relation of Euripides to the sophists, the pervasive self-reference and anachronism in Euripides, the problem of contemporary reference, and the construction and importance of the tragic scene. The book, which makes use of recent scholarship both in Classics and in critical theory, should be read by all those interested in Greek tragedy and in the culture of late fifth-century Athens.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004299815
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides provides a comprehensive account of the influence and appropriation of all extant Euripidean plays since their inception: from antiquity to modernity, across cultures and civilizations, from multiple perspectives and within a broad range of human experience and cultural trends, namely literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography. A concerted work by an international team of specialists in the field, the volume is addressed to a wide and multidisciplinary readership of classical reception studies, from experts to non-experts. Contributors engage in a vividly and lively interactive dialogue with the Ancient and the Modern which, while illuminating aspects of ancient drama and highlighting their ever-lasting relevance, offers a thoughtful and layered guide of the human condition.
Author : Edith Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199232512
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Greek Tragedy written by Edith Hall and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated introduction to ancient Greek tragedy, written by one of its most distinguished experts, which provides all the background information necessary for understanding the context and content of the dramas. A special feature is an individual essay on every one of the surviving 33 plays.
Author : Amélie Rorty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691014982
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Essays on Aristotle's Poetics written by Amélie Rorty and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-30 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays locates Aristotle's analysis of tragedy in its larger philosophical context. Philosophers, classicists, and literary critics connect the Poetics to Taristoltle's psychology and history, ethics an politics. There are discussions of plot and the unity of action, character and fictional necessity, catharsis, pity and fear, and aesthetic pleasure.
Author : Synnøve Des Bouvrie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9788200211259
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Women in Greek Tragedy written by Synnøve Des Bouvrie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work springs from a feminist inquiry into the role of women in Ancient Greece. The author confronts the paradox that while women were nearly invisible in public life, they played a very prominent part on the tragic stage. The book offers a thorough examination of the tragic drama and defines this medium, in an anthropological sense, as a "symbolic phenomenon," concluding that the phenomenon presents the social order and its basic institutions. The special interest of this study lies in its theoretical orientation. Drawing extensively on anthropological literature on symbolism as well as on Aristotle's Poetics, the author offers a model for analysis. Her starting point is the emotional or "tragic" workings of tragic drama, involving an inversion of the symbolic or world order. The method is then applied to eight dramas staging prominent women, providing insights which will prove useful to the study of Greek tragedy in general.
