Euripides Revolution Under Cover

Author : Pietro Pucci
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501704048

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Euripides' Revolution under Cover by Pietro Pucci Pdf

In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides’s revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides’s plays, Pucci goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies. The driving force behind this program is Euripides’s desire to subvert the traditional anthropomorphic view of the Greek gods—a belief system that in his view strips human beings of their independence and ability to act wisely and justly. Instead of fatuous religious beliefs, Athenians need the wisdom and the strength to navigate the challenges and difficulties of life. Throughout his lifetime, Euripides found himself the target of intense criticism and ridicule. He was accused of promoting new ideas that were considered destructive. Like his contemporary, Socrates, he was considered a corrupting influence. No wonder, then, that Euripides had to carry out his revolution "under cover." Pucci lays out the various ways the playwright skillfully inserted his philosophical principles into the text through innovative strategies of plot development, language and composition, and production techniques that subverted the traditionally staged anthropomorphic gods.

Author : Pietro Pucci
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501700613

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Euripides’ Revolution Under Cover by Pietro Pucci Pdf

Euripides's Revolution under Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Euripides's Poetic Game and Law of Composition -- 2. Anthropomorphism -- 3. The Protection of the Self and the Role of Sophia -- 4. Some Connotations of Sophia -- 5. Polyneices's Truth -- 6. Hecuba's Rhetoric -- 7. Eros in Euripides's Poetics: Sex as the Cause of the Trojan War -- 8. The Lewd Gaze of the Eye -- 9. The Power of Love: Who Is Aphrodite? -- 10. Phaedra -- 11. Hermione: The Andromache -- 12. Female Victims of War: The Troades -- 13. The Survival in Poetry -- 14. Figures of Metalepsis: The Invention of "Literature"--15. The Failure of Politics in Euripides's Poetics: Politics in the Suppliant Women -- 16. Political Philosophy: A Universal Program of Peace and Progress -- 17. How to Deliberate a War -- 18. Democracy and Monarchy -- 19. The Battle -- 20. The Rescue of the Corpses -- 21. Return to Arms -- 22. The Polis's Loss of Control and Authority -- 23. The Bacchants' Gospel and the Greek City -- 24. Pentheus and Teiresias -- 25. Dionysus's Revenge: First Round -- 26. Revenge Prepares Its Murderous Weapon -- 27. Initiation and Sacrifice -- 28. Victory and Defeat -- 29. Euripides's Poetry -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index Locorum

Author : Joshua Billings
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Greek drama
ISBN : 9780691225074

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The Philosophical Stage by Joshua Billings Pdf

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinking The Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at the heart of intellectual history. Drawing on evidence from tragedy and comedy, Joshua Billings shines new light on the development of early Greek philosophy, arguing that drama is our best source for understanding the intellectual culture of classical Athens. In this incisive book, Billings recasts classical Greek intellectual history as a conversation across discourses and demonstrates the significance of dramatic reflections on widely shared theoretical questions. He argues that neither "literature" nor "philosophy" was a defined category in the fifth century BCE, and develops a method of reading dramatic form as a structured investigation of issues at the heart of the emerging discipline of philosophy. A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's most original classical scholars, The Philosophical Stage presents a novel approach to ancient drama and sets a path for a renewed understanding of early Greek thought.

Author : Owen Rees
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350188662

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Military Departures, Homecomings and Death in Classical Athens by Owen Rees Pdf

This volume sheds new light on the experience of ancient Greek warfare by identifying and examining three fundamental transitions undergone by the classical Athenian hoplite as a result of his military service: his departure to war, his homecoming from war having survived, and his homecoming from war having died. As a conscript, a man regularly called upon by his city-state to serve in the battle lines and perform his citizen duty, the most common military experience of the hoplite was one of transition – he was departing to or returning from war on a regular basis, especially during extended periods of conflict. Scholarship has focused primarily on the experience of the hoplite after his return, with a special emphasis on his susceptibility to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but the moments of transition themselves have yet to be explored in detail. Taking each in turn, Owen Rees examines the transitions from two sides: from within the domestic environment as a member of an oikos, and from within the military environment as a member of the army. This analysis presents a new template for each and effectively maps the experience of the hoplite as he moves between his domestic and military duties. This allows us to reconstruct the effects of war more fully and to identify moments with the potential for a traumatic impact on the individual.

Author : Emily Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350154872

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity by Emily Wilson Pdf

In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its new and very different instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts. Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented. Tragedy was consistently seen as the most serious of all dramatic genres; these essays trace a sequence of different visions of what the most serious kind of dramatic story might be, and the most appropriate ways of telling those stories on stage. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: forms and media; sites of performance and circulation; communities of production and consumption; philosophy and social theory; religion, ritual, and myth; politics of city and nation; society and family, and gender and sexuality.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141920566

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Medea and Other Plays by Euripides Pdf

Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus 'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert Fagles This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings. Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking of all the Greek tragedies. Medea is a towering figure who demonstrates Euripides' unusual willingness to give voice to a woman's case. Alcestis is based on a magical myth in which Death is overcome, and The Children of Heracles examines conflict between might and right, while Hippolytus deals with self-destructive integrity. Translated by JOHN DAVIE

Author : Euripides,Joint Association of Classical Teachers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980-08-28
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521224616

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The Intellectual Revolution by Euripides,Joint Association of Classical Teachers Pdf

Designed to take students from "Reading Greek" to wider reading.

Author : Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek Course
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521736473

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The Intellectual Revolution by Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek Course Pdf

A reader for intermediate students of ancient Greek, introducing three of ancient Greece's most important authors, Euripides, Thucydides and Plato.

Author : John Pentland Mahaffy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044085117257

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Euripides by John Pentland Mahaffy Pdf

Author : James Morwood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474233606

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The Plays of Euripides by James Morwood Pdf

Over the past decades there has been something of a revolution in the way we view classical drama generally and Euripides in particular. This book, updated in a second edition, reflects that revolution and aims to show how Euripides was continually reinventing himself. A truly Protean figure, he seems to set out on a new journey in each of his surviving 19 plays. Between general introduction and final summary, Morwood's chapters identify the themes that underlie the plays and concentrate, above all, on demonstrating the extraordinary diversity of this great dramatist. New to this edition, which is updated throughout, are further details on the individual plays and extra suggestions for background reading. The volume is a companion to The Plays of Sophocles and The Plays of Aeschylus (both by Alex Garvie) also available in second editions from Bloomsbury. A further essential guide to the themes and context of ancient Greek tragedy may be found in Laura Swift's new introductory volume, Greek Tragedy.

Author : Museum and English journal of education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555034850

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The Museum. [entitled] The Museum and English journal of education by Museum and English journal of education Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1316119920

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The Intellectual Revolution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Pomona Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781406791624

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Euripides - Plays - by Euripides Pdf

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. Instead of the anarchist Gregory getting elected, the officer Syme uses his wits and is elected as the local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code name; Syme is given the name of Thursday. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, he discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; each was just as mysteriously employed and assigned to defeat the Council of Days. They all soon find out that they are fighting each other and not real anarchists; such was the mastermind plan of the genius Sunday. In a dizzying and surreal conclusion, the six champions of order and former anarchist ring-leaders chase down the disturbing and whimsical Sunday, the man who calls himself The Peace of God.

Author : Erich Segal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : UOM:39015026974447

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Euripides by Erich Segal Pdf

Euripides is shown in this study to have been a great innovator and the most daring playwright of the ancient world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Greek language
ISBN : OCLC:504956395

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The Intellectual Revolution by Anonim Pdf