Studies on the Seven Against Thebes of Aeschylus

Studies on the Seven Against Thebes of Aeschylus
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 108
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ISBN-10 : 9783112319437
ISBN-13 : 3112319435
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Studies on the Seven Against Thebes of Aeschylus by : H. D. Cameron

Aeschylus and War

Aeschylus and War
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781317196488
ISBN-13 : 1317196481
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Aeschylus and War by : Isabelle Torrance

This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relevance and value for exploring ancient, contemporary and comparative issues of war and its attendant trauma. The volume features contributions from an international cast of experts, as well as a conversation with a retired U.S. Army Lt. Col., giving her perspectives on the blending of reality and fiction in Aeschylus’ war tragedies and on the potential of Greek tragedy to speak to contemporary veterans. This book is a fascinating resource for anyone interested in Aeschylus, Greek tragedy and its reception, and war literature.

Under the Sign of the Shield

Under the Sign of the Shield
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 0739125893
ISBN-13 : 9780739125892
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Under the Sign of the Shield by : Froma I. Zeitlin

A study of the last drama of Aeschylus' trilogy concerned with the fortunes of the house of Laius that ends with the story of Oedipus' sons, the enemy brothers, who self-destruct in mutual fratricide but thereby save the besieged city of Thebes. The book's findings, however, far exceed these limits to explore the relationships between language and kinship, as between family and city, self and society, and Greek ideas about the nature of human development and identity.

A Study Guide for Aeschylus's "Seven against Thebes"

A Study Guide for Aeschylus's
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Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages : 26
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ISBN-10 : 9781410357670
ISBN-13 : 1410357678
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis A Study Guide for Aeschylus's "Seven against Thebes" by : Gale, Cengage Learning

A Study Guide for Aeschylus's "Seven against Thebes," 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.

The Materialities of Greek Tragedy

The Materialities of Greek Tragedy
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9781350028807
ISBN-13 : 1350028800
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Materialities of Greek Tragedy by : Mario Telò

Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three major Greek tragedians problematize objects and affect, providing fresh readings of some of the masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The so-called new materialisms have complemented the study of objects as signifiers or symbols with an interest in their agency and vitality, their sensuous force and psychosomatic impact-and conversely their resistance and irreducible aloofness. At the same time, emotion has been recast as material "affect,†? an intense flow of energies between bodies, animate and inanimate. Powerfully contributing to the current critical debate on materiality, the essays collected here destabilize established interpretations, suggesting alternative approaches and pointing toward a newly robust sense of the physicality of Greek tragedy.

Motif of Io in Aeschylus' Suppliants

Motif of Io in Aeschylus' Suppliants
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 117
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ISBN-10 : 9781400878192
ISBN-13 : 1400878195
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Motif of Io in Aeschylus' Suppliants by : Robert Duff Murray

Few Greek tragedies confront the critic with more varied difficulties than the Suppliants, and perhaps no other tragedy has been the subject of such diverse interpretation. In this book Professor Murray demonstrates that the web of imagery woven around Io, the ancestress of the Danaids, is a vitally important vehicle of meaning, indispensable to a correct interpretation of the trilogy. Originally published in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought

Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought
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Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781910589168
ISBN-13 : 1910589160
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Synopsis Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought by : D. L. Cairns

Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Prominent topics are the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on humans; fate and human responsibility; the instability of fortune and the principle of alternation; hybris and ate; and the inheritance of guilt and suffering. Other themes are tragedy's relation with Pre-Socratic philosophy, and the interplay between 'Archaic' features of the genre and fifth-century ethical and political thought. The book makes a powerful case for the importance of Archaic thought not only in the evolution of the tragic genre, but also for developed features of the Classical tragedians' art. Along with three papers on Aeschylus, four on Sophocles, and one on Euripides, there is an extensive introduction by the editor.

The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers

The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9789004332164
ISBN-13 : 9004332162
Rating : 4/5 (64 Downloads)

Synopsis The Reception of Aeschylus’ Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers by : Stratos Constantinidis

The Reception of Aeschylus' Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers addresses the need for an integrated approach to the study and staging of Aeschylus’ plays. It offers an invigorating discussion about the transmission and reception of his plays and explores the interrelated tasks of editing, translating, adapting and remaking them for the page and the stage. The volume seeks to reshape current debates about the place of his tragedies in the curriculum and the repertory in a scholarly manner that is accessible and innovative. Each chapter makes a significant and original contribution to its selected topic, but the collective strength of the volume rests on its simultaneous appeal to readers in theatre studies, classical studies, performance studies, comparative studies, translation studies, adaptation studies, and, naturally, reception studies.