Andromache

Author : William Allan
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191541568

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The Andromache and Euripidean Tragedy by William Allan Pdf

The Andromache has long been disparaged despite being a brilliant piece of theatre. In this book Dr Allan draws attention to the neglected artistry of this very impressive and intriguing text. Through careful analysis the Andromache emerges as a play that poses fundamental questions, especially about the polarity of Greek and barbarian, and the morality of the gods. Dr Allan shows how the play also challenges revenge as a motive for action, and explores the role of women as wives, mothers, and victims of war, be they Greek or Trojan, victorious or defeated. These are among the central concerns that make the Andromache a moving and thought-provoking tragedy, full of suffering, suspense, and moral interest. This book contributes both to an appreciation of the Andromache in its own right, and to a wider understanding of the variety and quality of Euripides' uvre.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0195125614

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Andromache by Euripides Pdf

In "Andromache", Euripides depicts the aftermath of the Trojan war, when Andromache, the widow of Hector, has a fruitful, but illicit affair with the son of Achilles. The ensuing power-struggle with Hermione, the wronged wife, is re-told in this collaboration between a poet and a classicist.

Author : Hanna M. Roisman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350256279

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Euripides: Andromache by Hanna M. Roisman Pdf

The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides' Andromache. Its presentation seeks to combine depth of analysis with clarity and accessibility. It discusses Greek theatre and performance, the myth behind the play, and the literary, intellectual, and political context in which it was written and first performed. The book provides analyses of the various characters, and highlights the play's ambiguities and complexities. What makes Andromache of special interest is the fact that, of the 32 extant tragedies, it might have been originally produced outside Athens. This in turn leads the discussion of how the play's scrutiny of the Spartan characters affected the off-stage audience. Andromache is the only play that portrays the human toll caused by the Trojan War to both the Trojan and the Greek sides. After the Fall of Troy, Andromache, former wife of Hector, has been given to Neoptolemus, Achilles' son, as a war-prize. Andromache bore Neoptolemus a son, Molossus, before Neoptolemus married Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. While Neoptolemus is away, Menelaus and Hermione attempt to kill Andromache and Molossus, causing a rift between the two families who were the major players in the War: the house of Atreus and the house of Peleus, father of Achilles. Although Neoptolemus is murdered, the play ends with a prophecy for the future of the line of descent of Peleus and Thetis in the form of the blessed kingdom of Molossia.

Author : Ian Johnstone
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456629960

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ANDROMACHE (A Queen is Crowned - Book 1) by Ian Johnstone Pdf

Peace had arrived once more to the port and village of Hippolyta. The rogue Vandal army had been destroyed, and Vinzenz the evil commander in the Vandal army had been burned at the stake the previous night. Queen Echephyle and Queen Hippolyte had started their punishment for defying Hippolyta, Queen of all Amazons. They almost got Danilo the barbarian and Queen Andromache killed by not affording them an escort when returning from the imminent battle in the east. As it was every morning the first meal of the day was eaten in the council room before the daily tasks were talked about. What they did not know was Adalric was about to be crowned King of the Astro Goths and while it was taking place a Goth General was going to use the confusion to his advantage. A Goth messenger arrived during the meeting warning of an impending conflict after the Goth armies had been attacked in the south of their realm. By the laws of the treaty between Hippolyta, Queen of all Amazons and the Goth realm, she was committed to help them.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781603848251

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Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides Pdf

Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and political context in which Euripides wrote, and provides analysis of the themes, structure, and characters of the plays included. Her notes offer expert guidance to readers encountering these works for the first time.

Author : Andromache Karanika
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421412566

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Voices at Work by Andromache Karanika Pdf

The songs of working women are reflected in Greek poetry and poetics. In ancient Greece, women's daily lives were occupied by various forms of labor. These experiences of work have largely been forgotten. Andromache Karanika has examined Greek poetry for depictions of women working and has discovered evidence of their lamentations and work songs. Voices at Work explores the complex relationships between ancient Greek poetry, the female poetic voice, and the practices and rituals surrounding women’s labor in the ancient world. The poetic voice is closely tied to women’s domestic and agricultural labor. Weaving, for example, was both a common form of female labor and a practice referred to for understanding the craft of poetry. Textile and agricultural production involved storytelling, singing, and poetry. Everyday labor employed—beyond its socioeconomic function—the power of poetic creation. Karanika starts with the assumption that there are certain forms of poetic expression and performance in the ancient world which are distinctively female. She considers these to be markers of a female “voice” in ancient Greek poetry and presents a number of case studies: Calypso and Circe sing while they weave; in Odyssey 6 a washing scene captures female performances. Both of these instances are examples of the female voice filtered into the fabric of the epic. Karanika brings to the surface the words of women who informed the oral tradition from which Greek epic poetry emerged. In other words, she gives a voice to silence.

Author : Gilbert Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Andromache (Legendary character)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124453361

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Andromache by Gilbert Murray Pdf

Author : Euripides,Anne Carson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780811230803

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The Trojan Women: A Comic by Euripides,Anne Carson Pdf

A fantastic comic-book collaboration between the artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet Anne Carson, based on Euripides’s famous tragedy A NEW YORK TIMES BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2021 Here is a new comic-book version of Euripides’s classic The Trojan Women, which follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache, and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked and all its men killed. This collaboration between the visual artist Rosanna Bruno and the poet and classicist Anne Carson attempts to give a genuine representation of how human beings are affected by warfare. Therefore, all the characters take the form of animals (except Kassandra, whose mind is in another world).

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1675
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10103206

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Andromache by Jean Racine Pdf

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : French drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : WISC:89003099439

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Complete Plays: The Theban brothers. Alexander the Great. Andromache. The litigants. Britannicus. Berenice by Jean Racine Pdf

Author : Arthur Woollgar Verrall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Euripides, 480-406 B.C. Andromache
ISBN : UOM:39015008173703

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Essays on Four Plays of Euripides: Andromache, Helen, Heracles, Orestes by Arthur Woollgar Verrall Pdf

Author : Richard E. Goodkin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0299130800

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The Tragic Middle by Richard E. Goodkin Pdf

'This is an extraordinary book, brilliantly conceived and beautifully written. Its approach to the well-worn subject of tragic drama is quite fresh. While Goodkin draws on the best of traditional scholarship in philosophy, classical philology, and literary criticism, he argues with an intellectual style that is entirely his own. Every reader will be stimulated in his own particular way-so great is the range and power of this book-to extend the book's argument toward or from his own area of interest.'-William Levitan, Princeton University

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044085113983

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Euripides: Andromache by Euripides Pdf

Author : Samuel Barber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Songs (High voice) with orchestra
ISBN : UOM:39015040210943

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Andromache's Farewell by Samuel Barber Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198150938

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Hecuba by Euripides Pdf

This is the final in a series of three volumes of a new prose translation of Euripides' most popular plays. In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battle-ground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in the Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. And in her name play Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.