Under the Sign of the Shield

Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes

AvFroma I. Zeitlin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Del i serien Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

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Described as "a powerful, brilliant, and original study" when first published, this second edition of Froma Zeitlin's experiment in decoding the Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes in the light of contemporary theory now updates her explorations of the tragic struggle between Eteocles and Polyneices, the doomed sons of Oedipus, with a new preface, a new afterword, and the addition of the relevant Greek texts. The mutual self-destruction of the enemy brothers in this last act of the cursed family is preceded (and determined) by one of Aeschylus' most daring innovations through the pairing of the shields of attackers and defenders in the central scene of the play as an extended dialogue explicitly concerned with visual and verbal symbols. In a preliminary consideration of the relations between language and kinship and between city and family, between self and society, as determining forces in fifth-century drama, the heart of the book is a detailed investigation of this tour de force of semiotic energy. Zeitlin's decipherment of this provocative text yields a heightened appreciation of Aeschylus' compositional artistry and the complexity of his worldview. At the same time, this study points the way to Zeitlin's larger engagement with the special ideological role that the city of Thebes comes to play on the tragic stage as the negative counterpart to the self-representation of Athens.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-04-16
Mått:162 x 240 x 19 mm
Vikt:440 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Antal sidor:198
Upplaga:9002
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739125892

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Froma I. Zeitlin is professor of classics and the Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Princeton University.

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With this brilliant analysis of Aeschylean drama, Froma Zeitlin shows twenty-first century students, scholars, and lovers of antiquity how to read Greek tragedy.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 0 Foreword by Greg NagyChapter 2 Preface to the First EditionChapter 3 Preface to the Second EditionPart 4 I Language, Structure, and the Son of OedipusChapter 5 1 Trilogy: Narrative, Time, and Repetitive FormChapter 6 2 Genos: System of Finality/System of LanguageChapter 7 3 Mythos-Polis/Genos: Autochthony/IncestChapter 8 4 Hero: Structure, Sign, and IdentityChapter 9 5 Reading the Signs by the Rules of the GamePart 10 II The Shield SceneChapter 11 6 Tydeus-Melanippos: 375-416Chapter 12 7 Kapaneus-Polyphontes: 422-451Chapter 13 8 Eteoklos-Megareus: 457-480Chapter 14 9 Hippomedon-Hyperbios: 486-520Chapter 15 10 Parthenopaios-Aktor: 526-562Chapter 16 11 Amphiaraos-Lasthenes: 568-626Chapter 17 12 Polyneikes-Eteokles: 631-685Chapter 18 13 AftermathChapter 19 Appendix to Part II: The Opfertod TheoryPart 20 III System and RepresentationChapter 21 14 The Shield Scene as System: Relations and PatternsChapter 22 15 The Shield Scene as Representation: the Mise en SceneChapter 23 16 The Shield Scene as System: the Development of the SelfChapter 24 Postscript: Tragic Thebes on the Athenian Stage