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Author : David Bain
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719012969
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Masters, Servants, and Orders in Greek Tragedy written by David Bain and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Baechle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311061099X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides’ ›Electra‹ written by Nicholas Baechle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides’ Electra opened up for its audience an opportunity to become self-aware as to the appeal of tragic Kunstsprache: it both reflected and sustained traditional, aristocratically-inflected assumptions about the continuity of appearance and substance, even in a radical democracy. A complex analogy between social and aesthetic valuation is played out and brought to light. The characterization of Orestes early in the play demonstrates how social appearances made clear the identity of well-born, and how they were still assumed to indicate superior virtue and agency. On the aesthetic side of the analogy, one of the functions of tragic diction, as an essential indication of heroic character and agency, comes into view in a dramatic and thematic sequence that begins with Achilles ode and ends with the planning of the murders. Serious doubts are created as to whether Orestes will realize the assumed potential inherent in his heroic genealogy and, at the same time, as to whether the components of his character as an aesthetic construct are congruent with such qualities and agency. Both sides of this complex analogy are thus problematized, and, at a metapoetic level, its nature and bases are exposed for reflection.
Author : Matthew Wright
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191534455
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Euripides' Escape-Tragedies written by Matthew Wright and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major critical study of three late plays of Euripides: Helen, Andromeda and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Matthew Wright offers a sustained reading of the plays, arguing that they are a thematically connected trilogy. He re-examines central themes such as myth, geography, cultural identity, philosophy, religion, and (crucially) genre. These are not separate topics, but are seen as being joined together to form an intricate nexus of ideas. The book has implications for our view of Euripides and the tragic genre as a whole.
Author : Isabelle Torrance
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350070076
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians written by Isabelle Torrance and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new student introduction to a Greek tragedy, Isabelle Torrance looks at what makes Iphigenia among the Taurians a successful tragedy in ancient Greek terms, and how dramatic excitement is achieved through the exotic setting, the cast of characters, and the chorus. Assuming no knowledge of Greek, and with students in mind, the central themes of ethnicity and gender relations are examined to show how Euripides manipulates established stereotypes. The play was one of Aristotle's favourites and his enthusiasm derived from the fact that, in spite of its ostensibly happy ending, the play presents the audience with an exquisitely constructed reversal of events: when Iphigenia recognizes that she has been about to sacrifice her long-lost brother, kin-murder is avoided and the plot turns into an escape drama. Other significant concerns of the play surround ritual and the gods, and these are discussed to highlight how the drama asks probing theological questions. Finally, the vast reception history of the play in a variety of genres, such as ancient comedy, Roman philosophy, European opera, and 20th century theatre, is sketched out from antiquity to the present day.
Author : Sara Forsdyke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009063979
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece written by Sara Forsdyke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery in ancient Greece was commonplace. In this book Sara Forsdyke uncovers the wide range of experiences of slaves and focuses on their own perspectives, rather than those of their owners, giving a voice to a group that is often rendered silent by the historical record. By reading ancient sources 'against the grain,' and through careful deployment of comparative evidence from more recent slave-owning societies, she demonstrates that slaves engaged in a variety of strategies to deal with their conditions of enslavement, ranging from calculated accommodation to full-scale rebellion. Along the way, she establishes that slaves made a vital contribution to almost all aspects of Greek society. Above all, despite their often brutal treatment, they sometimes displayed great ingenuity in exploiting the tensions and contradictions within the system of slavery.
Author : Matthew Wright
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350124796
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Menander: Samia written by Matthew Wright and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Wright brings Menander's Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-century Greek drama and society. He offers a scene-by-scene reading of the play, combining close attention to detail with broader consideration of major themes, in an approach designed to bring out the humour and nuance of each individual moment on stage, while also illuminating Menander's comic art. The play dramatizes a tangled story of mistakes, mishaps and misapprehensions leading up to the marriage of Moschion and Plangon. For most of the action the characters are at odds with one another owing to accidental delusions or deliberate deceptions, and it seems as if the marriage will be cancelled or indefinitely postponed; but ultimately everyone's problems are solved and the play ends happily. Samia is one of the best-preserved examples of fourth-century Greek comedy: celebrated within antiquity but subsequently lost for many years, it miraculously came back to light, in almost complete form, as a result of Egyptian papyrus finds during the 20th century.
Author : Michael Ewans
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003859208
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Aeschylus' Oresteia written by Michael Ewans and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fully revised new edition of Michael Ewans’ 1995 English translation of the Oresteia, taking into account the extensive work published on the trilogy in recent years. Accompanying this lucid, accurate and actable translation is a substantial introduction, outlining the festival setting of the plays, the original performance conditions and performance style, the form and meaning of the trilogy, the issues surrounding the act of translation, and finally a survey of some major productions since 1980. The text itself is a thoroughly competitive translation into modern English verse, now significantly revised in the light of recent scholarship on the text. It is followed by a theatrical commentary on each scene and chorus, providing unique insights into how the plays might have been staged in ancient Athens and how they can be staged today. The book also includes notes on the translation, two glossaries of names and Greek terms, selected further reading, and a chronology of Aeschylus’ life and times. Aeschylus’ Oresteia: Translation and Theatrical Commentary is the most comprehensive English edition of Aeschylus’ masterpiece, and this new edition fully meets the needs of teachers, students and practitioners working on the trilogy as well as those interested in ancient Greek drama and literature more broadly.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108317987
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Sophocles: Oedipus the King written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries the myth of Oedipus, the man who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother, has exerted a powerful hold on the human imagination; but no retelling of that myth has ever come close, in passion, drama, and menace to the one that we find in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. This new full-scale edition of that classic play - the first in any language since 1883 - offers a freshly constituted text based on consultation of manuscripts ancient and mediaeval. The Introduction explores the play's dating and production, its creative engagement with pre-Sophoclean versions, its major themes, and its reception during antiquity. The Commentary offers a detailed analysis, line by line and scene by scene, of the play's language, staging, and dramatic impact. The translation incorporated into the commentary ensures that the book will be accessible to all readers interested in what is arguably the greatest Greek tragedy of all.
Author : Gréta Kádas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527522369
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Approaches to Greek and Latin Language, Literature and History written by Gréta Kádas and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This peer-reviewed collection of essays provides an account of several current foci of research in Classics. It gathers fifteen contributions covering subjects such as Greek and Latin papyrology and epigraphy. It also includes approaches to various key literary texts, from Homer to post-classical Humanists, in addition to chapters on navigation, coinage, and sculpture. This book represents a useful research tool for a wide range of scholars in Greek, Latin and Ancient History, as well as an up-to-date source for any classicist.
Author : Emily Kearns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100920274X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris written by Emily Kearns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides' Iphigeneia among the Taurians has been a popular and influential text from antiquity onwards. It is a suspenseful drama set on the Black Sea coast in what is now Crimea, which explores themes of family loyalty, Greeks and barbarians, and the nature of the gods. The plot combines an unrecognised meeting between Iphigeneia, now a priestess of Artemis among the Taurians, and her brother Orestes, who with his friend Pylades has been captured and brought to her for sacrifice, with an exciting escape attempt for all three, ultimately brought about by divine intervention. This edition includes a full Introduction to the literary and production aspects of the play, while the Commentary elucidates problems of language as well as interpretation. These combine to make the play fully accessible to intermediate-level undergraduates and graduate students wishing to read it in the original Greek.
Author : Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110330970
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Euripides' "Alcestis" written by Andreas Markantonatos and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an accessible yet in-depth narratological study of Euripides’ Alcestis - the earliest extant play of Euripides and one of the most experimental masterpieces of Greek tragedy, not only standing in place of a satyr-play but also preserving at least some of its typical features. Commencing from the widely-held view, so lamentably ignored within the domain of Classics, that a narratology of drama should be predicated upon the notion of narrative as verbal, as well as visual, rendition of a story, this unique volume contextualizes the play in terms of its reception by the original audience, locating the intricate narrative tropes of the plot in the dynamics of fifth-century Athenian mythology and religion.
Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316195279
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen written by C. W. Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Euripides' play Helen as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall's detailed study expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and provides new interpretations of how Euripides created meaning in performance. Marshall focuses on dramatic structure to show how assumptions held by the ancient audience shaped meaning in Helen and to demonstrate how Euripides' play draws extensively on the satyr play Proteus, which was part of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Structure is presented not as a theoretical abstraction, but as a crucial component of the experience of performance, working with music, the chorus and the other plays in the tetralogy. Euripides' Andromeda in particular is shown to have resonances with Helen not previously described. Arguing that the role of the director is key, Marshall shows that the choices that a director can make about role doubling, gestures, blocking, humour, and masks play a crucial part in forming the meaning of Helen.
Author : J.R. Porter
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004329242
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Studies in Euripides' Orestes written by J.R. Porter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work challenges recent critical assessments that emphasize the allegedly subversive elements in Euripides' play. The Orestes is found to present a curious mélange of early and late Euripidean features, resulting in a drama where the tragic potential of Orestes' predicament becomes lost amid the moral, political and situational chaos that dominates the late Euripidean stage. Throughout, emphasis is placed on reading the Orestes in light of Greek stage conventions and the poet's own practice. Of particular interest are: an original examination, in light of Greek rhetorical practice, of Orestes' agon with Tyndareus; an analysis of the Phrygian's monody as a cunning hybrid of Timothean nome and traditional messenger speech; and a re-evaluation of the play's troubling deus ex machina.
Author : Gunther Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110523590
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Euripides, "Ion" written by Gunther Martin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides’ Ion is a highly complex and elusive play and thus poses considerable difficulties to any interpreter. On the basis of a new recension of the text, this commentary offers explanations of the language, literary technique, and realia of the play and discusses the main issues of interpretation. In this way the reader is provided with the material required for an appreciation of this entertaining as well as provocative dramatic composition.
Author : Page duBois
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226167895
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Slaves and Other Objects written by Page duBois and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-03-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Page duBois, a classicist known for her daring and originality, turns in this new book to one of the most troubling subjects in the study of antiquity: the indispensability of slaves in ancient Greece. DuBois argues that every object and text in the world of ancient Greece bears the marks of slavery and the need to reiterate the distinction between slave and free. And yet the ubiquity of slaves in ancient societies has been overlooked by scholars who idealize antiquity, misconstrued by those who view slavery through the lens of race, and obscured by the split between historical and philological approaches to the classics. DuBois begins her study by exploring the material culture of slavery, including how most museum exhibits erase the presence of slaves in the classical world. Shifting her focus to literature, she considers the place of slaves in Plato's Meno, Aristotle's Politics, Aesop's Fables, Aristophanes' Wasps, and Euripides' Orestes. She contends throughout that portraying the difference between slave and free as natural was pivotal to Greek concepts of selfhood and political freedom, and that scholars who idealize such concepts too often fail to recognize the role that slavery played in their articulation. Opening new lines of inquiry into ancient culture, Slaves and Other Objects will enlighten classicists and historians alike.
Author : Irene J.F. de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422937
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Time in Ancient Greek Literature written by Irene J.F. de Jong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number of times they are presented.
Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191513206
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (132 download)
Download or read book Comic Business written by Martin Revermann and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-05-18 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic Business situates Aristophanic comedy in the context of competitive (re)performance culture in 5th- and 4th-century Greece. It seeks to illuminate how the dazzling busyness of Aristophanic comedy is the creation of a carefully manipulating craftsman trying to outdo his rivals in the fierce competition of the dramatic festivals. Theoretically informed by theatre semiotics and frame-based models of conceptualizing the theatrical event, it analyses in a number of case studies how theatrical resources of all kinds are utilized in order to generate theatrical meaning as well as capture and sustain audience interest. The approach therefore combines philological analysis with methodologies developed in Theatre Studies. Special attention is given to the visual dimension of theatrical communication. Material from comparator traditions is brought to bear, as is the evidence of the pictorial record.
