Author : Pär Sandin
Publisher : Pär Sandin
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Danaus
ISBN : 9789162864019
Aeschylus' Supplices
Pär Sandin
Aeschylus Supplices
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Aeschylus' Supplices
A. F. Garvie
Author : A. F. Garvie
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Aeschylus' Supplices by A. F. Garvie Pdf
The 'Supplices' of Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C004162988
The 'Supplices' of Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf
Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women
Geoffrey W. Bakewell
Author : Geoffrey W. Bakewell
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780299291730
Aeschylus’s Suppliant Women by Geoffrey W. Bakewell Pdf
As Athenians of the classical era became increasingly aware of their own collective identity, they sought to define themselves and exclude others. They created a formal legal status to designate the free noncitizens living among them, calling them metics and calling their status metoikia. When Aeschylus dramatized the mythical flight of the Danaids from Egypt in his play Suppliant Women, he did so in light of his own time and place. Throughout the play, directly and indirectly, he casts the newcomers as metics and their stay in Greece as metoikia. Bakewell maps the manifold anxieties that metics created in classical Athens, showing that although citizens benefited from the many immigrants in their midst, they also feared the effects of immigration in political, sexual, and economic realms. Bakewell finds metoikia was a deeply flawed solution to the problem of large-scale immigration.
Suppliant Women
Aeschylus
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Aris & Phillips
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781908343789
Suppliant Women by Aeschylus Pdf
Aeschylus starts his tetralogy boldly, making the Danaids themselves prologue, chorus and protagonist. Guided by their father Danaus, these girls have fled from Egypt, where their cousins want to marry them, to seek asylum in Argos: they claim descent from Io, who was driven to Egypt five generations earlier when Zeus' love for her was detected by jealous Hera. In the long first movement of the play the Danaids argue their claim, pressing it with song and dance of pathos and power, upon the reluctant Argive king. He, forced eventually by their threat of suicide, puts the case to his people, who vote to accept the girls, but while they sing blessings on Argos, Danaus spies their cousins' ships arriving. Left on their own when he goes for help, they sing more seriously of suicide, and seek sanctuary upstage when the Egyptians enter. A remarkable tussle of two choruses ensues; in the nick of time the king arrives, sees off the Egyptians (but they promise a return) and offers his hospitality. The girls want their father, however, and go when guided by him and his escort of Argive soldiers. Their final song has elements of wedding song in it; they share it, provocatively, with the Argives. The rest of the tetralogy is lost, but enough is known to indicate that marriage is the theme. Aeschylus probably surprised his first audience in his use of the myth; his command of theatre and poetry is fully mature.A.J.Bowen is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. From 1993 to 2007 he was Orator of the University.
Aeschylus: Suppliants
Aeschylus
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107058330
Aeschylus: Suppliants by Aeschylus Pdf
Student-oriented edition with commentary of a long-neglected Greek tragedy about refugees, gender, race, war, and political deception.
Aischylou Hiketides
Aeschylus
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112023759050
Aischylou Hiketides by Aeschylus Pdf
The 'Supplices' of Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Tragedy
ISBN : OCLC:1001171616
The 'Supplices' of Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf
Aeschylus
Aeschylus
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781400861613
Aeschylus by Aeschylus Pdf
An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation of this ancient Greek drama, Peter Burian introduces a new generation of readers to a powerful work of Aeschylus' later years. He conveys the strength and daring of Aeschylus' language in the idiom of our own time, while respecting what is essentially classical in this dramatist's art: the rigor of the formal constraint with which he compresses high emotion to the bursting point. The Suppliants, which is the first and only surviving part of a trilogy, does not conform to our expectations of Greek drama in that it has neither hero, nor downfall, nor tragic conclusion. Instead the play portrays unresolved conflicts of sexuality, love, and emotional maturity. These distinctly modern themes come alive in a translation that re-creates the psychological immediacy as well as the dramatic tension of this ancient work. Originally published in 1991. 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.
The Suppliant Women Supplices
Aeschylus
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Danaus (Greek mythology)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004481367
The Suppliant Women Supplices by Aeschylus Pdf
The Danaids form the chorus and serve as the protagonists. They flee a forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. When the Danaids reach Argos, they entreat King Pelasgus to protect them. He refuses pending the decision of the Argive people, who decide in the favour of the Danaids. Danaus rejoices the outcome, and the Danaids praise the Greek gods. Almost immediately, a herald of the Egyptians comes to attempt to force the Danaids to return to their cousins for marriage. Pelasgus arrives, threatens the herald, and urges the Danaids to remain within the walls of Argos. The play ends with the Danaids retreating into the Argive walls, protected.
Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy
Mark Chou
Author : Mark Chou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441190482
Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy by Mark Chou Pdf
This engaging work tells the story of democracy through the perspective of tragic drama. It shows how the ancient tales of greatness and its loss point to the potential dangers of democracy then and now. Greek Tragedy dramatized a variety of stories, characters, and voices drawn from reality, especially from those marginalized by Athens's democracy. It brought up dissident figures through its multivocal form, disrupting the perception of an ordered reality. Today, this helps us grasp the reality of Athenian democracy, that is, a system steeped in patriarchy, slavery, warmongering, and xenophobia. The book reads through two renditions of Aeschylus' Suppliants as democratic texts for the twenty-first century, to show how such multivocal dramas actually address not only the pitfalls of our contemporary democracy, but also a range of environmental, security, socio-economic, and political dilemmas that afflict democratic politics today. Written in a very accessible manner, Greek Tragedy and Contemporary Democracy is a lively book that will appeal to any political science and international relations student interested in issues of democracy, governance, democratic peace, and democratic theory.
Groaning Tears
E.P. Garrison
Author : E.P. Garrison
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004329522
Groaning Tears by E.P. Garrison Pdf
Groaning Tears examines suicide in Greek tragedy in light of the fifth-century ethical climate. No full-scale work has previously been devoted to this pervasive topic. The particular focus of identifying suicide as a response to the expectations of popular ethics and social demands makes it useful for scholars and students of drama, ethics and sociology. Chapter one establishes the ethical background of audiences in the fifth century while chapters two through five examine suicide in the context of whole plays based on motivational distinctions: to avoid disgrace and preserve an honorable reputation; to avoid further suffering; to end grief; and to sacrifice oneself for a greater good. The final chapter considers a drama of lighter tone that presents suicide in all of its ethical and theatrical aspects.
The 'Supplices' of Aeschylus; a Revised Text with Introd., Critical Notes, Commentary & Translation by T.G. Tucker...
Aeschylus
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008011861
The 'Supplices' of Aeschylus; a Revised Text with Introd., Critical Notes, Commentary & Translation by T.G. Tucker... by Aeschylus Pdf
The Suppliants
Aeschylus
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:4064066462826
The Suppliants by Aeschylus Pdf
The Suppliants, also known as The Suppliant Maidens, The Suppliant Women, or Supplices, is a play written by Aeschylus, considered as the "Father of Tragedy." E. D. A. Morshead has translated this narrative. The Danaids form a chorus and play the protagonist in this narrative. They were compelled to marry their Egyptian relatives. The Danaids implored King Pelasgus to protect them when they arrived in Argos from Egypt. He refused to wait for the Argives' choices, which favored the Danaids. The Danaus was overjoyed with the outcome, and the Danaids worshiped the Greek gods. The Danaids are compelled to go back to their relatives for marriage as soon as an Egyptian news anchor shows up. Pelasgus appears, threatens the herald, and pushes the Danaids to remain within Argos' gates.
Suppliant Women
Euripides
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Greek Tragedy in New Translations
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 019504553X
Suppliant Women by Euripides Pdf
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on the text, full stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical and geographical references in the plays. Already tested in performance on the stage, this translation shows for the first time in English the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' Suppliant Women. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a just war and grief for the fallen, the play captures with unremitting force the competing poles of the human psyche. The translators, Rosanna Warren and Stephen Scully, accentuate the contrast between female lament and male reasoned discourse in this play where the silent dead hold, finally, center stage.