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Sophocles and Alcibiades

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492927
Total Pages : 192 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 192 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:

Studies in Fifth Century Thought and Literature

Author : Adam Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521083052
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Fifth Century Thought and Literature written by Adam Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1972-07-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three children try to catch an escaped cat.

Aristophanes and Alcibiades

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110427958
Total Pages : 263 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 263 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

Author : Clifton Wilbraham Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles written by Clifton Wilbraham Collins and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alcibiades II

Author : Plato
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades II written by Plato and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ascribed to the renowned philosopher Plato, this thought-provoking dialogue delves into the complexities of prayer, wisdom, and ignorance. Socrates encounters Alcibiades on his way to pray and challenges his understanding of the gods' response to prayers. Through insightful arguments and captivating examples, Socrates explores the dangers of misguided desires and the importance of self-awareness. As their discussion unfolds, readers are taken on a journey of philosophical discovery, questioning the true nature of knowledge and the consequences of ignorance.

Oedipus at Colonus

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299302547
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Oedipus at Colonus written by Sophocles and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles' trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and his unhappy family. It dramatizes the mysterious death of Oedipus, by which he is transformed into an immortal hero protecting Athens. This was Sophocles' final play, written in his mid-eighties and produced posthumously. Translator David Mulroy's introduction and notes deepen the reader's understanding of Oedipus' character and the real political tumult that was shaking Athens at the time that Sophocles wrote the play. Oedipus at Colonus is at once a complex study of a tragic character, an indictment of Athenian democracy, and a subtle endorsement of hope for personal immortality. As in his previous translations of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, Mulroy combines scrupulous scholarship and textual accuracy with a fresh poetic style. He uses iambic pentameter for spoken passages and short rhymed stanzas for choral songs, resulting in a text that is accessible and fun to read and perform.

Alcibiades

Author : Jack Meyer
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 142691833X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades written by Jack Meyer and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is he just a troublemaker with an attitude? Or will this spunky youth grow up to do something great? The populace of Athens holds varied opinions about Alcibiades, a handsome boy who exhibits a devious and audacious personality. Based on historical record, author Jack Meyer reconstructs the life of Alcibiades, a man who uniquely impacted classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War. An orphan, Alcibiades grew up in the household of Pericles, was Socrates' favorite student, and was immensely handsome and rich. This narrative tells the story of the stunning career of this brilliant tactical military commander, persuasive orator, and consummate traitor who switched sides three times during the war. The city's own favorite son, this product of the Golden Age, was a man as morally corrupt as he was convincingly eloquent. The reconstruction of Alcibiades' story breeds both fiction and farce, and this story of the Greek experience serves as an analogue for a critique of today's American foreign policy.

Nemesis

Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674919661
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Nemesis written by David Stuttard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War. Nemesis tells the story of this extraordinary life and the turbulent world that Alcibiades set out to conquer. David Stuttard recreates ancient Athens at the height of its glory as he follows Alcibiades from childhood to political power. Outraged by Alcibiades’ celebrity lifestyle, his enemies sought every chance to undermine him. Eventually, facing a capital charge of impiety, Alcibiades escaped to the enemy, Sparta. There he traded military intelligence for safety until, suspected of seducing a Spartan queen, he was forced to flee again—this time to Greece’s long-term foes, the Persians. Miraculously, though, he engineered a recall to Athens as Supreme Commander, but—suffering a reversal—he took flight to Thrace, where he lived as a warlord. At last in Anatolia, tracked by his enemies, he died naked and alone in a hail of arrows. As he follows Alcibiades’ journeys crisscrossing the Mediterranean from mainland Greece to Syracuse, Sardis, and Byzantium, Stuttard weaves together the threads of Alcibiades’ adventures against a backdrop of cultural splendor and international chaos. Navigating often contradictory evidence, Nemesis provides a coherent and spellbinding account of a life that has gripped historians, storytellers, and artists for more than two thousand years.

Sophocles

Author : Siegfried Melchinger
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780804464840
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles written by Siegfried Melchinger and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1974 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to see a play in the Theater of Dionysus, which may have accommodated 17,000 spectators, all of whom could see and hear the play clearly? Siegfried Melchinger brings the ancient theater to life, describing in fascinating detail the stage, the audience, the religious festival for which the plays were written, the use of sets, the function of the chorus, music and dance, the importance of the mask, the language of the play, and the way in which the actors played the parts. -- From publisher's description.

Socrates and Alcibiades

Author : Ariel Helfer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249135
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Socrates and Alcibiades written by Ariel Helfer and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Socrates and Alcibiades, Ariel Helfer provides a new interpretation of Plato's account of the relationship between Socrates and the infamous Athenian general Alcibiades, in the process revealing a complex Platonic teaching on the nature and corruptibility of political ambition.

Sophocles

Author : Clifton W. Collins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385207436
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Sophocles written by Clifton W. Collins and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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.

Alcibiades

Author : Thomas Otway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades written by Thomas Otway and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alcibiades I

Author : Plato
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Alcibiades I written by Plato and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The First Alcibiades', Socrates converses with the ambitious and proud Alcibiades, who seeks guidance before entering public life. As they discuss the essence of politics, Socrates challenges Alcibiades' knowledge of justice, and the youth concedes that he knows nothing about politics. Socrates warns him of the education, might, and richness of foreign rulers and stresses the importance of self-knowledge.

Six of Plutarch's Greek Lives: Nicias. Alcibiades

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Six of Plutarch's Greek Lives: Nicias. Alcibiades written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Study Guide for Sophocles's "Women of Trachis: Trachiniae"

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 141035024X
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Sophocles's "Women of Trachis: Trachiniae" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Sophocles's "Women of Trachis: Trachiniae," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.