Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes

Author : Aeschylus,Helen H. Bacon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991-04-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198020158

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Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus,Helen H. Bacon Pdf

The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedy The Seven Against Thebes. The third and only remaining play in a trilogy dealing with related events, The Seven Against Thebes tells the story of the Argive attempt to claim the Kingdom of Thebes, and of the deaths of the brothers Eteocles and Polyneices, each by the others hand. Long dismissed by critics as ritualistic and lacking in dramatic tension, Seven Against Thebes is revealed by Hecht and Bacon as a work of great unity and drama, one exceptionally rich in symbolism and imagery.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681462653

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The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus Pdf

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely based on inferences from his surviving plays. Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times. Fragments of some other plays have survived in quotes and more continue to be discovered on Egyptian papyrus, often giving us surprising insights into his work.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000000756969

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Aeschylou hepta epi Thebas by Aeschylus Pdf

Author : Isabelle Torrance
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472537683

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Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes by Isabelle Torrance Pdf

One of our earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text. It dramatises the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Polynices - the exile, and Eteocles - reigning king of Thebes. Polynices marches on Thebes to regain his throne along with six other champion warriors and their armies, but the expedition is doomed, and the meaning of Oedipus' enigmatic curse on his sons ultimately becomes clear through their simultaneous fratricide and the extinction of the Theban house. This book places the drama within the context of the connected trilogy of which it was a part. It investigates the play's tensions between city and family and the omnipresence of curse and ritual within the religious and political environment of fifth century Greece. The drama's focus on the world of male warriors, and its stark opposition of the sexes through the female Chorus, is analysed in terms of warrior ideology in epic and Greek understanding of appropriate behaviour. Finally, it explores the complex legacy of the play through its influence on Sophocles and Euripides, and shows how the drama's condemnation of civil war has been exploited as an analogue for events in modern history. This is part of a series of accessible introductions to ancient tragedies. Each volume discusses the main themes of a play and the central developments in modern criticism, while also addressing the play's historical context and the history of its performance and adaptation.

Author : H. D. Cameron
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112319437

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

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : IOWA:31858024853743

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The 'Seven Against Thebes' of Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf

Author : Froma I. Zeitlin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0739125893

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Under the Sign of the Shield by Froma I. Zeitlin Pdf

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.

Author : Giovanna Di Martino
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9791220061896

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Translating and Adapting Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes in the United States by Giovanna Di Martino Pdf

After centuries of neglect, Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes has gained increasing prominence worldwide and in the United States in particular, where a hip-hop production caught the public imagination in the new millennium. This study analyses three translations of Aeschylus’ tragedy (by Helen H. Bacon and Anthony Hecht, 1973; Stephen Sandy, 1999; and Carl R. Mueller, 2002) and two adaptations (by Will Power, 2001-2008; and Ellen Stewart, 2001-2004). Beginning in the late 1960s, the Seven Against Thebes has received multiple new readings: at stake are Eteocles’ and Polynices’ relationships with the (past and present) Labdacid dynasty; the brothers’ claims to the Theban polis and to their inheritance; and the metatheatrical implications of their relationship to Oedipus’ legacy. This previously forgotten play provides a timely response to the power dynamics at work in the contemporary US, where the fight for ethnic, cultural, economic, and linguistic recognition is a daily reality and always involves dialogue with the individual’s own past and tradition.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781775458135

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Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus Pdf

The third and final play in Aeschylus' Oedipodea trilogy, Seven Against Thebes is the only one of the three plays that has survived intact to this day. During the course of the action-packed play, seven would-be usurpers storm the city's gates in a series of brutal attacks. Will the family -- still weakened by the curse put on its patriarch, Oedipus -- be able to marshal the strength to fight back?

Author : Isabelle Torrance
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317196488

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Aeschylus and War by Isabelle Torrance Pdf

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.

Author : Aeschylus,Isaac Flagg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Eteocles (Greek mythology)
ISBN : PRNC:32101055577603

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The seven against Thebes of Aeschylus by Aeschylus,Isaac Flagg Pdf

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290422729

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The Seven Against Thebes of Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Daniel W. Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015074232094

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Myth and Culture in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes by Daniel W. Berman Pdf

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1421400634

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Persians, Seven against Thebes, and Suppliants by Aeschylus Pdf

Aaron Poochigian’s new translations of Aeschylus’s earliest extant plays provide the clearest rendering yet of their formal structure. The distinction between spoken and sung rhythms is as sharp as it is in the source texts, and for the first time readers in English can fully grasp the balanced, harmonious arrangement of choral odes. The importance of these works to the history of drama and tragedy and to the history of classical literature is beyond question, and their themes of military hubris and foreign versus native are deeply relevant today. Persians offers a surprisingly sympathetic portrayal of the Athenians’ most hated enemy; in Seven against Thebes Argive invaders, though no less Greek than the Thebans themselves, are portrayed as barbarians; and in Suppliants the city of Argos is called upon to protect Egyptian refugees. Based on textual evidence and the archaeological remains of the Theater of Dionysus at Athens, Poochigian’s introductory overview of stage properties and accompanying stage directions allow readers to experience the plays as they were performed in their own time. He is most careful in his translations of the plays’ choral odes. Instead of rendering them with little or no form, Poochigian has preserved the comprehensive structures Aeschylus himself employed. Readers are thus able to recognize Aeschylus as a master of poetry as well as of drama. Poochigian’s translations are the most accurate renditions of the poetry and dramaturgy of the original works available. Intended to be both read as literature and performed as plays, these translations are lucid and readable, while remaining staunchly faithful to the texts.

Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1041676539

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The Seven against Thebes of Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf