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Author | : Vayos Liapis |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2018-07-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1527514676 |
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Modern Greek national and cultural identities consist, to a considerable extent, of clusters of cultural memory, shaped by an ongoing dialogue with the classical past. Within this dialogue between modern Greece and classical antiquity, Greek tragedy takes pride of place. In this volume, ten scholars from Cyprus, Greece, the United Kingdom and the United States explore the various ways in which Greek tragedy and tragic myth have been reimagined and rewritten in modern Greek drama and poetry. The book’s extensive coverage includes major modern Greek authors, such as Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos, as well as less well-known, but equally rich and rewarding, 20th- and 21st-century texts.
Author | : Robin Mitchell-Boyask |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2013-12-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1472519639 |
Download Aeschylus: Eumenides Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The "Eumenides", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the "Oresteia", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals. It stands at the crux of the controversies over the relationship between the fledgling democracy of Athens and the dramas it produced during the City Dionysia, and over the representation of women in the theatre and their implied status in Athenian society. The "Eumenides" enacts the trial of Agamemnon's son Orestes, who had been ordered under the threat of punishment by the god Apollo to murder his mother Clytemnestra, who had earlier killed Agamemnon.In the "Eumenides", Orestes, hounded by the Eumenides (Furies), travels first to Delphi to obtain ritual purgation of his mother's blood, and then, at Apollo's urging, to Athens to seek the help of Athena, who then decides herself that an impartial jury of Athenians should decide the matter. Aeschylus thus presents a drama that shows a growing awareness of the importance of free will in Athenian thought through the mythologized institution of the first jury trial.
Author | : Vaios Liapēs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-06 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
ISBN | : 9781443879644 |
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Modern Greek national and cultural identities consist, to a considerable extent, of clusters of cultural memory, shaped by an ongoing dialogue with the classical past. Within this dialogue between modern Greece and classical antiquity, Greek tragedy takes pride of place. In this volume, ten scholars from Cyprus, Greece, the United Kingdom and the United States explore the various ways in which Greek tragedy and tragic myth have been reimagined and rewritten in modern Greek drama and poetry. The book's extensive coverage includes major modern Greek authors, such as Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos, as well as less well-known, but equally rich and rewarding, 20th- and 21st-century texts.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781016248372 |
Download The Oresteia of Aeschylus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Lee Siegel |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2022-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300264968 |
Download Why Argument Matters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An impassioned case for argument’s central role in human life, by one of America’s most distinguished cultural critics “Perhaps more than any other commentary, Why Argument Matters illuminates the root causes of our partisan, venomous, irrational times—and yet somehow rescues from the morass the true nature of argument, its power and beauty.”—Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House From Eve’s crafty exchange with the serpent, to Martin Luther King’s soaring, subtle ultimatums, to the throes of Twitter—argument’s drainpipe—the human desire to prevail with words has been not just a moral but an existential compulsion. In this dazzling reformulation of argument, renowned critic Lee Siegel portrays the true art of argument as much deeper and far more embracing than mere quarrel, dispute, or debate. It is the supreme expression of humanity’s longing for a better life, born of empathy and of care for the world and those who inhabit it. With wit, passion, and striking insights, Siegel plumbs the emotional and psychological sources of clashing words, weaving through his exploration the untold story of the role argument has played in societies throughout history. Each life, he maintains, is an argument for that particular way of living; every individual style of argument is also a case that is being made for that person’s right to argue. Argument is at the heart of the human experience, and language, at its most liberated and expressive, inexorably bends toward argument.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Athena (Greek deity) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : C. W. Marshall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1474255086 |
Download Aeschylus: Libation Bearers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ancient audience. His discussion explores the impact of the chorus, the characters, theology, and the play's apparent affinities with comedy. The architecture of choral songs is described in detail. The book also investigates the role of revenge in Athenian society and the problematic nature of Orestes' matricide. Libation Bearers immediately entered the Athenian visual imagination, influencing artistic depictions on red-figured vases, and inspiring plays by Euripides and Sophocles. This study looks to the later plays to show how 5th-century audiences understood Libation Bearers. Modern reception of the play is integrated into the analysis. The volume includes a full range of ancillary material, providing a list of relevant red-figure vase illustrations, a glossary of technical terms, and a chronology of ancient and modern theatrical versions.
Author | : R. B. Rutherford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2012-05-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107377072 |
Download Greek Tragic Style Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Greek tragedy is widely read and performed, but outside the commentary tradition detailed study of the poetic style and language of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides has been relatively neglected. This book seeks to fill that gap by providing an account of the poetics of the tragic genre. The author describes the varied handling of spoken dialogue and of lyric song; major topics such as vocabulary, rhetoric and imagery are considered in detail and illustrated from a broad range of plays. The contribution of the chorus to the dramas is also discussed. Characterisation, irony and generalising statements are treated in separate chapters and these topics are illuminated by comparisons which show not only what is shared by the three major dramatists but also what distinguishes their practice. The book sheds light both on the genre as a whole and on many particular passages.
Author | : Aeschylus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robin Osborne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2007-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521879167 |
Download Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the changes in Athenian culture at the end of the fifth century BC.