Sophocles And Alcibiades

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317492924

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Sophocles and Alcibiades by Michael Vickers Pdf

Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, especially to Alcibiades, one of the most controversial Athenian politicians of his day.Vickers shows that Sophocles was no closeted intellectual but a man deeply involved in politics and he reminds us that Athenian politics was intensely personal. He argues cogently that classical writers employed hidden meanings and that consciously or sub-consciously, Sophocles was projecting onto his plays hints of contemporary events or incidents, mostly of a political nature, hoping that his audience's passion for politics would enhance the popularity of his plays. Vickers strengthens his case about Sophocles by discussing other authors - Thucydides, Plato and Euripides - in whom he also demonstrates a body of allusions to Alcibiades and others.

Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8323118841

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Oedipus and Alcibiades in Sophocles by Michael Vickers Pdf

Author : Adam Parry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1972-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521083058

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Studies in Fifth Century Thought and Literature by Adam Parry Pdf

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Author : Michael Vickers
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110427950

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Aristophanes and Alcibiades by Michael Vickers Pdf

The conventional view of Aristophanes bristles with problems. Important testimony for Alcibiades’ paramount role in comedy is consistently disregarded, and the tradition that “masks were made to look like the komodoumenoi, so that before an actor spoke a word, the audience would recognize who was being attacked” is hardly ever invoked. If these testimonia are taken into account, a fascinating picture emerges, where the komodoumenoi are based on the Periclean household: older characters on Pericles himself, younger on Alcibiades. Aspasia, Pericles’ mistress, and Hipparete, Alcibiades’ wife, lie behind many female characters, and Alcibiades’ ambiguous sexuality also allows him to be shown on the stage as a woman, notably as Lysistrata. There is a substantial overlap between the anecdotal tradition relating to the historical figures and the plotting of Aristophanes’ plays. This extends to speech patterns, where Alcibiades’ speech defect is lampooned. Aristophanes is consistently critical of Alcibiades’ mercurial politics, and his works can also be seen to have served as an aide-mémoire for Thucydides and Xenophon. If the argument presented here is correct, then much current scholarship on Aristophanes can be set aside.

Author : Clifton Wilbraham Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015008192984

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Sophocles by Clifton Wilbraham Collins Pdf

Author : Plato
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664628855

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Alcibiades II by Plato Pdf

Ascribed to the renowned philosopher Plato, this thought-provoking dialogue delves into the complexities of prayer, wisdom, and ignorance. Socrates encounters Alcibiades on his way to pray and challenges his understanding of the gods' response to prayers. Through insightful arguments and captivating examples, Socrates explores the dangers of misguided desires and the importance of self-awareness. As their discussion unfolds, readers are taken on a journey of philosophical discovery, questioning the true nature of knowledge and the consequences of ignorance.

Author : Jack Meyer
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781426918339

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Alcibiades by Jack Meyer Pdf

Is he just a troublemaker with an attitude? Or will this spunky youth grow up to do something great? The populace of Athens holds varied opinions about Alcibiades, a handsome boy who exhibits a devious and audacious personality. Based on historical record, author Jack Meyer reconstructs the life of Alcibiades, a man who uniquely impacted classical Athens during the Peloponnesian War. An orphan, Alcibiades grew up in the household of Pericles, was Socrates' favorite student, and was immensely handsome and rich. This narrative tells the story of the stunning career of this brilliant tactical military commander, persuasive orator, and consummate traitor who switched sides three times during the war. The city's own favorite son, this product of the Golden Age, was a man as morally corrupt as he was convincingly eloquent. The reconstruction of Alcibiades' story breeds both fiction and farce, and this story of the Greek experience serves as an analogue for a critique of today's American foreign policy.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410350244

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A Study Guide for Sophocles's "Women of Trachis: Trachiniae" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Sophocles's "Women of Trachis: Trachiniae," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Jacques Jouanna
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 892 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691240404

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Sophocles by Jacques Jouanna Pdf

Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays, all set in the rich context of classical Greek tragedy and the political, social, religious, and cultural world of Athens's greatest age, the fifth century. Sophocles was the commanding figure of his day. The author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, he was not only the leading dramatist but also a distinguished politician, military commander, and religious figure. And yet the evidence about his life has, until now, been fragmentary. Reconstructing a lost literary world, Jouanna has finally assembled all the available information, culled from inscriptions, archaeological evidence, and later sources. He also offers a huge range of new interpretations, from his emphasis on the significance of Sophocles' political and military offices (previously often seen as honorary) to his analysis of Sophocles' plays in the mythic and literary context of fifth-century drama. Written for scholars, students, and general readers, this book will interest anyone who wants to know more about Greek drama in general and Sophocles in particular. With an extensive bibliography and useful summaries not only of Sophocles' extant plays but also, uniquely, of the fragments of plays that have been partially lost, it will be a standard reference in classical studies for years to come.

Author : Richard Hunter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1079 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110747768

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The Layers of the Text by Richard Hunter Pdf

This volume collects the most recent essays of Richard Hunter, one of the world's leading experts in the field of Greek and Latin literature. The essays range across all periods of ancient literature from Homer to late antiquity, with a particular focus not just on the texts in their original contexts, but also on how they were interpreted and exploited for both literary and more broadly cultural purposes later in antiquity. Taken together, the essays sketch a picture of a continuous tradition of critical and historical engagement with the literature of the past from the period of Aristophanes and then Plato and Aristotle in classical Athens to the rich prose literature of the Second Sophistic. Richard Hunter's earlier essays are collected in On Coming After (Berlin 2008).

Author : Thomas Otway
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1735
Category : English drama
ISBN : BL:A0022543269

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Alcibiades by Thomas Otway Pdf

Author : Emily Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Siegfried Melchinger
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015004287150

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Sophocles by Siegfried Melchinger Pdf

What was it like to see a play in the Theater of Dionysus, which may have accommodated 17,000 spectators, all of whom could see and hear the play clearly? Siegfried Melchinger brings the ancient theater to life, describing in fascinating detail the stage, the audience, the religious festival for which the plays were written, the use of sets, the function of the chorus, music and dance, the importance of the mask, the language of the play, and the way in which the actors played the parts. -- From publisher's description.

Author : Ariel Helfer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812249132

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Socrates and Alcibiades by Ariel Helfer Pdf

In Socrates and Alcibiades, Ariel Helfer provides a new interpretation of Plato's account of the relationship between Socrates and the infamous Athenian general Alcibiades, in the process revealing a complex Platonic teaching on the nature and corruptibility of political ambition.

Author : Adriana E. Brook
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780299313807

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Tragic Rites by Adriana E. Brook Pdf

An analysis of the literary and dramatic function of ritual within the world of Sophocles' plays, for scholars of Greek tragedy, ancient theater, and poetics.