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Sophocles and Alcibiades

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492919
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles and Alcibiades written by Michael Vickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day.Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that Athenian politics was intensely personal. He argues cogently that classical writers employed hidden meanings and that consciously or sub-consciously, Sophocles was projecting onto his plays hints of contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature, hoping that his audience's passion for politics would enhance the popularity of his plays. Vickers strengthens his case about Sophocles by discussing other authors - Thucydides, Plato and Euripides - in whom he also demonstrates a body of allusions to Alcibiades and others.

Sophocles and Alcibiades

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492927
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles and Alcibiades written by Michael Vickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day.Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that Athenian politics was intensely personal. He argues cogently that classical writers employed hidden meanings and that consciously or sub-consciously, Sophocles was projecting onto his plays hints of contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature, hoping that his audience's passion for politics would enhance the popularity of his plays. Vickers strengthens his case about Sophocles by discussing other authors - Thucydides, Plato and Euripides - in whom he also demonstrates a body of allusions to Alcibiades and others.

Oedipus and Alcibiades in Sophocles

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788323118848
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus and Alcibiades in Sophocles written by Michael Vickers and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sophocles

Author : Jacques Jouanna
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172072
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles written by Jacques Jouanna and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays, all set in the rich context of classical Greek tragedy and the political, social, religious, and cultural world of Athens's greatest age, the fifth century. Sophocles was the commanding figure of his day. The author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, he was not only the leading dramatist but also a distinguished politician, military commander, and religious figure. And yet the evidence about his life has, until now, been fragmentary. Reconstructing a lost literary world, Jouanna has finally assembled all the available information, culled from inscriptions, archaeological evidence, and later sources. He also offers a huge range of new interpretations, from his emphasis on the significance of Sophocles' political and military offices (previously often seen as honorary) to his analysis of Sophocles' plays in the mythic and literary context of fifth-century drama. Written for scholars, students, and general readers, this book will interest anyone who wants to know more about Greek drama in general and Sophocles in particular. With an extensive bibliography and useful summaries not only of Sophocles' extant plays but also, uniquely, of the fragments of plays that have been partially lost, it will be a standard reference in classical studies for years to come.

Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy

Author : D. G. Beer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313039321
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy written by D. G. Beer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Athenian democracy of the 5th century B.C. created the most important political theatre of western culture. Sophocles, the most successful tragic playwright of the age, was a radical innovator who produced his tragedies to present to his audience complex moral, social, and political issues of a kind that they might be faced with in their various legal and political assemblies. Beer examines Sophocles as a political playwright against the background of Athenian democracy, breaking new ground by showing the importance of the mask for understanding Sophoclean tragedy and redefining the notion of skenographia, or setting the scene. He concludes that Sophocles revolutionized the concept of dramatic space. The Athenian tragic theatre was deeply political and played an important and active role in the life of Athenian democracy. This book presents an introduction to the political nature of Greek tragedy and Sophoclean tragedy in an effort to shed new light on the dramatic works of the 5th century playwright. As Aristotle noted, Sophocles' two most important innovations were the introduction of the third actor and skenographia, which brought tragedy to its fully evolved form. Beer argues that although his use of the third actor has been widely understood, his use of skenographia has not. Carefully exploring the true sense of this method of using dramatic space, Beer brings a new understanding to the works of this old master.

Wounded Heroes

Author : Marina McCoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199672784
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Wounded Heroes written by Marina McCoy and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCoy examines how Greek epic, tragedy, and philosophy offer important insights into the nature of human vulnerability, especially how Greek thought extols the recognition and proper acceptance of vulnerability. Beginning with the literary works of Homer and Sophocles, she also expands her analysis to the philosophical works of Plato and Aristotle.

Late Sophocles

Author : Thomas Van Nortwick
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472119567
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Late Sophocles written by Thomas Van Nortwick and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible examination of the evolution of key Sophoclean characters

The Life of Alcibiades

Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501739964
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Alcibiades written by Jacqueline de Romilly and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450–404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose to democracy. As Jacqueline de Romilly brilliantly documents, Alcibiades's life is one of wanderings and vicissitudes, promises and disappointments, brilliant successes and ruinous defeats. Born into a wealthy and powerful family in Athens, Alcibiades was a student of Socrates and disciple of Pericles, and he seemed destined to dominate the political life of his city—and his tumultuous age. Romilly shows, however, that he was too ambitious. Haunted by financial and sexual intrigues and political plots, Alcibiades was exiled from Athens, sentenced to death, recalled to his homeland, only to be exiled again. He defected from Athens to Sparta and from Sparta to Persia and then from Persia back to Athens, buffeted by scandal after scandal, most of them of his own making. A gifted demagogue and, according to his contemporaries, more handsome than the hero Achilles, Alcibiades is also a strikingly modern figure, whose seductive celebrity and dangerous ambition anticipated current crises of leadership.

The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aristophanes and Alcibiades

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110427915
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Aristophanes and Alcibiades written by Michael Vickers and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades’ paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that “masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor spoke a word, the audience would recognize who was being attacked” is hardly ever invoked. If these testimonia are taken into account, a fascinating picture emerges, where the komodoumenoi are based on the Periclean household: older characters on Pericles himself, younger on Alcibiades. Aspasia, Pericles’ mistress, and Hipparete, Alcibiades’ wife, lie behind many female characters, and Alcibiades’ ambiguous sexuality also allows him to be shown on the stage as a woman, notably as Lysistrata. There is a substantial overlap between the anecdotal tradition relating to the historical figures and the plotting of Aristophanes’ plays. This extends to speech patterns, where Alcibiades’ speech defect is lampooned. Aristophanes is consistently critical of Alcibiades’ mercurial politics, and his works can also be seen to have served as an aide-mémoire for Thucydides and Xenophon. If the argument presented here is correct, then much current scholarship on Aristophanes can be set aside.

Sophocles: The Oedipus Tyrannus

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles: The Oedipus Tyrannus written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece

Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Children and Sexuality

Author : G. Rousseau
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230590527
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Children and Sexuality written by G. Rousseau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and Sexuality probes the hidden relations between children and sexuality in case studies from the Greeks to the Great War. The lives reconstructed here extend from Greek Alcibiades to Lewis Carroll and Baden-Powell, each recounted with scrupulous vigilance to detail and nuance.

The Argument of the Action

Author : Seth Benardete
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226042510
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Argument of the Action written by Seth Benardete and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000-08-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together Seth Benardete's studies of Hesiod's Theogony, Homer's Iliad, and Greek tragedy, of eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle's Metaphysics. These essays, some never before published, others difficult to find, span four decades of his work and document its impressive range. Benardete's philosophic reading of the poets and his poetic reading of the philosophers share a common ground that makes this collection a whole. The key, suggested by his reflections on Leo Strauss in the last piece, lies in the question of how to read Plato. Benardete's way is characterized not just by careful attention to the literary form that separates doctrine from dialogue, and speeches from deed; rather, by following the dynamic of these differences, he uncovers the argument that belongs to the dialogue as a whole. The "turnaround" such an argument undergoes bears consequences for understanding the dialogue as radical as the conversion of the philosopher in Plato's image of the cave. Benardete's original interpretations are the fruits of this discovery of the "argument of the action."

Sophocles: The Oedipus Tyrannus. 3rd ed. 1893

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles: The Oedipus Tyrannus. 3rd ed. 1893 written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brill's Companion to Herodotus

Author : Egbert J. Bakker
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004217584
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to Herodotus written by Egbert J. Bakker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2002-05-31 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herodotus’ Histories can be read in many ways. Their literary qualities, never in dispute, can be more fully appreciated in the light of recent developments in the study of pragmatics, narratology, and orality. Their intellectual status has been radically reassessed: no longer regarded as naïve and ‘archaic’, the Histories are now seen as very much a product of the intellectual climate of their own day - not only subject to contemporary literary, religious, moral and social influences, but actively contributing to the great debates of their time. Their reliability as historical and ethnographic accounts, a matter of controversy even in antiquity, is being debated with renewed vigour and increasing sophistication. This Companion offers an up-to-date and in-depth overview of all these current approaches to Herodotus’ remarkable work.

Sophocles

Author : Jacques Jouanna
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069124040X
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles written by Jacques Jouanna and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays, all set in the rich context of classical Greek tragedy and the political, social, religious, and cultural world of Athens's greatest age, the fifth century. Sophocles was the commanding figure of his day. The author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, he was not only the leading dramatist but also a distinguished politician, military commander, and religious figure. And yet the evidence about his life has, until now, been fragmentary. Reconstructing a lost literary world, Jouanna has finally assembled all the available information, culled from inscriptions, archaeological evidence, and later sources. He also offers a huge range of new interpretations, from his emphasis on the significance of Sophocles' political and military offices (previously often seen as honorary) to his analysis of Sophocles' plays in the mythic and literary context of fifth-century drama. Written for scholars, students, and general readers, this book will interest anyone who wants to know more about Greek drama in general and Sophocles in particular. With an extensive bibliography and useful summaries not only of Sophocles' extant plays but also, uniquely, of the fragments of plays that have been partially lost, it will be a standard reference in classical studies for years to come.