The Tangled Ways of Zeus

And Other Studies In and Around Greek Tragedy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

The Tangled Ways of Zeus is a collection of studies written over the last twenty years by the distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about various aspects of ancient Greek tragedy (and, in some cases, other related genres). It complements his recent collection of studies in Greek comedy, Talking about Laughter (OUP, 2009). Some of the essays have not been published previously, others have appeared in books or journals hard to find outside major academic libraries. Each chapter deals with its own topic, but between them they build up a multifaceted picture of the dramatists (especially Aeschylus and Sophocles), the genre, and its interactions with the society, culture, and religion of classical Athens.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-05-13
Mått:143 x 222 x 27 mm
Vikt:568 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780199568314

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Alan H. Sommerstein is Professor of Greek at the University of Nottingham.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; 1. The titles of Greek dramas ; 2. Violence in Greek drama ; 3. Adolescence, ephebeia, and Athenian drama ; 4. Sherlockismus and the study of fragmentary tragedies ; 5. The seniority of Polyneikes in Aeschylus' Seven ; 6. The beginning and the end of Aeschylus' Danaid trilogy ; 7. The theatre audience, the Demos, and the Suppliants of Aeschylus ; 8. Sleeping safe in our beds: stasis, assassination, and the Oresteia ; 9. The tangled ways of Zeus ; 10. The omen of Aulis or the omen of Argos? ; 11. Pathos and mathos before Zeus ; 12. Oresteia Act II: two misconceptions ; 13. Aeschylus' epitaph ; 14. Dearest Haimon ; 15. 'They all knew how it was going to end': tragedy, myth, and the spectator ; 16. Alternative scenarios in Sophocles' Electra ; 17. Sophocles' Palamedes and Nauplius plays: no trilogy here ; 18. 'The rugged Pyrrhus': the son of Achilles in tragedy ; 19. What ought the Thebans to have done?