Greek Tragedy And The Historian

Author : C. B. R. Pelling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : UCSC:32106014433871

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Greek Tragedy and the Historian by C. B. R. Pelling Pdf

The tragic theme was no mere diversion for a fifth-century Athenian: it was a focal part of the experience of being a citizen. Tragedy explores fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central source for the reconstruction and analysis ofthe Athenian thought-world. Yet is is also a peculiarly delicate source to use, and the combination of tragic with other material often poses particular problems to the historian. This collection of eleven papers investigates the methods and pitfalls of using tragedy to illuminate fifth-centurythought, culture, and society. In the concluding essay Christopher Pelling summarizes two important themes of the book: the problems of using tragedy as evidence; and the light tragedy can shed on civic ideology.

Author : Christopher Pelling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134906406

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Literary Texts and the Greek Historian by Christopher Pelling Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Vayos Liapis,Antonis K. Petrides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038554

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Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century by Vayos Liapis,Antonis K. Petrides Pdf

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview.

Author : Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : OCLC:1012669230

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Greek Tragedy by Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto Pdf

Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501746703

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Interpreting Greek Tragedy by Charles Segal Pdf

This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, psychoanalytic interpretation, structuralism, and semiotics.

Author : Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350155077

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A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire by Michael Gamer,Diego Saglia Pdf

This volume traces a path across the metamorphoses of tragedy and the tragic in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly delimited by the French Revolution and the First World War. Its starting point is the recognition that tragedy did not die with Romanticism, as George Steiner famously argued over half a century ago, but rather mutated and dispersed, converging into a variety of unstable, productive forms both on the stage and off. In turn, the tragic as a concept and mode transformed itself under the pressure of multiple social, historical and political-ideological phenomena. This volume therefore deploys a narrative centred on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries. The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century. 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 : H. D. F. Kitto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317761440

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Greek Tragedy by H. D. F. Kitto Pdf

This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as: * why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor? * why did Sophocles develop character drawing? * why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good? Greek Tragedy is neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism which all students of literature will find suggestive and stimulating.

Author : Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141961712

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Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles Pdf

Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.

Author : Lisa Hau,Ian Ruffell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317558057

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Truth and History in the Ancient World by Lisa Hau,Ian Ruffell Pdf

This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Ancient Greek historiographers repeatedly stressed the importance of truth to history; yet they also purported to believe in myth, distorted facts for nationalistic or moralizing purposes, and omitted events that modern audiences might consider crucial to a truthful account of the past. Truth and History in the Ancient World explores a pluralistic concept of truth – one in which different versions of the same historical event can all be true – or different kinds of truths and modes of belief are contingent on culture. Beginning with comparisons between historiography and aspects of belief in Greek tragedy, chapters include discussions of historiography through the works of Herodotus, Xenophon, and Ktesias, as well as Hellenistic and later historiography, material culture in Vitruvius, and Lucian’s satire. Rather than investigate whether historiography incorporates elements of poetic, rhetorical, or narrative techniques to shape historical accounts, or whether cultural memory is flexible or manipulated, this volume examines pluralities of truth and belief within the ancient world – and consequences for our understanding of culture, ancient or otherwise.

Author : Simon Goldhill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009183048

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Reading Greek Tragedy by Simon Goldhill Pdf

This book is an advanced critical introduction to Greek tragedy. It is written specifically for the reader who does not know Greek and who may be unfamiliar with the context of the Athenian drama festival but who nevertheless wants to appreciate the plays in all their complexity. Simon Goldhill aims to combine the best contemporary scholarly criticism in classics with a wide knowledge of modern literary studies in other fields. He discusses the masterpieces of Athenian drama in the light of contemporary critical controversies in such a way as to enable the student or scholar not only to understand and appreciate the texts of the most commonly read plays, but also to evaluate and utilize the range of approaches to the problems of ancient drama. This revised edition contains a substantial new Introduction which engages with critical and scholarly developments in Greek tragedy since the original publication.

Author : H. D. F. Kitto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134930418

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Greek Tragedy by H. D. F. Kitto Pdf

Neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism, this classic text not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes.

Author : P. E. Easterling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521423511

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The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy by P. E. Easterling Pdf

As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance of Greek tragedy. There are three main emphases: on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, on a range of different critical interpretations arising from fresh readings of the texts, and on changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance from antiquity to the present. Each chapter can be read independently, but each is linked with the others, and most examples are drawn from the same selection of plays.

Author : Agnes Heller†
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004460126

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Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History by Agnes Heller† Pdf

Completed shortly before her death in 2019, Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History is the sum of Agnes Heller’s reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of Europe’s two unique literary creations: tragedy and philosophy.

Author : Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470693261

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Greek Tragedy by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz Pdf

Greek Tragedy sets ancient tragedy into its original theatrical, political and ritual context and applies modern critical approaches to understanding why tragedy continues to interest modern audiences. An engaging introduction to Greek tragedy, its history, and its reception in the contemporary world with suggested readings for further study Examines tragedy’s relationship to democracy, religion, and myth Explores contemporary approaches to scholarship, including structuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist theory Provides a thorough examination of contemporary performance practices Includes detailed readings of selected plays

Author : Barbara E. Goff
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0292727798

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History, Tragedy, Theory by Barbara E. Goff Pdf

In this book, some of the foremost scholars of Greek drama explore the work of all three great tragedians and approach them from a variety of perspectives on history and theory, including poststructuralism and Marxism. They investigate the possibilities for coordinating theoretically informed readings of tragedy with a renewed attention To The pressure of material history within those texts. The collection thus represents a response within classics to "New Historicism" And The debates it has generated within related literary disciplines.