Author: Almut Fries
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311038258X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 467
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The pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus is the only extant Greek tragedy based on an episode from Homer’s Iliad and a unique witness for the history of the genre in the 4th century BC. This new edition, with introduction and commentary, discusses textual problems, language, metre and dramaturgy as well as the mythological and literary-historical background of the play. It is an indispensable aid for serious students of the text.
Author: Euripides
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Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Author: Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004435352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1227
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Brill’s Companion to Euripides, as well as presenting a comprehensive and authoritative guide to understanding Euripides and his masterworks, provides scholars and students with compelling fresh perspectives upon a broad range of issues in the field of Euripidean studies.
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Languages : en
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Author: Marco Fantuzzi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108889476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavily rewriting his original play or of a fourth-century author writing in competition. This edition explores the play as a 'postclassical' tragedy, composed when the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides had become the 'classical' canon. Its stylistic mannerisms, cerebral re-use of the motifs and language of fifth-century tragedy, and endemic experimentalism with various models of intertextuality exemplify the anxiety of influence of the Rhesus as a text that 'comes after' fifth-century drama and Book 10 of the Iliad. The anachronistic adaptations of the world of the epic heroes to the new reality of the polis and the irresistible rise of Macedonian power also reveal the Rhesus attempting to be both seriously intertextual with its models and seriously different from them.
Author: Euripides
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Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004299815
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 679
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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides provides a comprehensive account of the influence and appropriation of all extant Euripidean plays since their inception: from antiquity to modernity, across cultures and civilizations, from multiple perspectives and within a broad range of human experience and cultural trends, namely literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography. A concerted work by an international team of specialists in the field, the volume is addressed to a wide and multidisciplinary readership of classical reception studies, from experts to non-experts. Contributors engage in a vividly and lively interactive dialogue with the Ancient and the Modern which, while illuminating aspects of ancient drama and highlighting their ever-lasting relevance, offers a thoughtful and layered guide of the human condition.
Author: Euripides
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537062334
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Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Euripides is known in literature & fiction circles as a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Euripides is one of the few whose dramas & plays have survived. Ancient & medieval scholars have attributed 95 dramas & plays to Euripides, of which 19 are known to have survived more or less complete. Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama & plays down to modern times. He was unique among the writers of ancient & medieval Athens for the sympathy he demonstrated towards all victims of society, including women. Euripides' Rhesus is an ancient & medieval Greek tragedy, which takes place during the Trojan War, on the night when Odysseus and Diomedes sneak into the Trojan camp. Rhesus, the neighboring king of Thrace, arrives to assist the Trojans. Rhesus is a short ancient & medieval drama & play that is most notable in comparison with the Iliad but it is not without controversy. The authorship of Rhesus has been disputed since the 17th century. Many literature & fiction scholars challenge the aesthetic grounds of the Greek tragedy as well as the drama & play's vocabulary, style, and technique. However, other literature & fiction scholars fully credit Euripides with authorship of Rhesus while noting that the ancient & medieval Greek tragedy was written by a younger less-developed Euripides.
Author: Johanna Astrid Michels
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110610523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, perhaps the best-known mythographic text, stands out for its comprehensive aim and state of preservation. The handbook has regularly been disregarded as a repository of 'standard' myths or as a primary witness to archaic stories, a reductive view at once underestimating and romanticizing the merits of the Bibliotheca. This monograph unlocks the Bibliotheca as a literary work in its own right by offering the first systematic commentary on an essential selection, the Cretan and Theban myths in Bibl. III.1-56, and by presenting an in-depth analysis of the text. In so doing, this volume closes a gap in current research, from which a philological commentary is entirely missing. The main part of the study focuses on various aspects of composition and organization by addressing structuring principles, narratorial interventions, and the author's method and sources. It lays to rest persistent misconceptions about the representative character of the Bibliotheca's myths, the author's merits, and his source use, all of which have divided the scholarship to this date. In addition, it provides an update on the author, date, purpose and readership, text history, and book division of the Bibliotheca.
Author: James Morwood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474233619
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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Over the past decades there has been something of a revolution in the way we view classical drama generally and Euripides in particular. This book, updated in a second edition, reflects that revolution and aims to show how Euripides was continually reinventing himself. A truly Protean figure, he seems to set out on a new journey in each of his surviving 19 plays. Between general introduction and final summary, Morwood's chapters identify the themes that underlie the plays and concentrate, above all, on demonstrating the extraordinary diversity of this great dramatist. New to this edition, which is updated throughout, are further details on the individual plays and extra suggestions for background reading. The volume is a companion to The Plays of Sophocles and The Plays of Aeschylus (both by Alex Garvie) also available in second editions from Bloomsbury. A further essential guide to the themes and context of ancient Greek tragedy may be found in Laura Swift's new introductory volume, Greek Tragedy.
