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Author : Robert J Milch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544179387
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1001378024
Author : T. G. Tucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107661165
Originally published in 1901, this book contains the ancient Greek text of Aeschylus' Choephori, the second play in his Oresteia trilogy. Tucker supplies an English translation on each facing page, as well as a translation of the ancient scholia and a detailed critical commentary. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in history of Classical scholarship or ancient Greek drama.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005719581
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534673539
The Choephori - The Libation Bearers - Aeschylus The Libation Bearers is the second play of the Oresteia. It deals with the reunion of Agamemnon's children, Electra and Orestes, and their revenge. Orestes kills Clytemnestra to avenge the death of Agamemnon, Orestes' father. Storyline Orestes arrives at the grave of his father, accompanied by his cousin Pylades, the son of the king of Phocis, where he has grown up in exile; he places two locks of his hair on the tomb. Orestes and Pylades hide as Electra, Orestes' sister, arrives at the grave accompanied by a chorus of elderly slave women (the libation bearers of the title) to pour libations on Agamemnon's grave; they have been sent by Clytemnestra in an effort "to ward off harm" (l.42). Just as the ritual ends, Electra spots a lock of hair on the tomb which she recognizes as similar to her own; subsequently she sees two sets of footprints, one of which has proportions similar to hers. At this point Orestes and Pylades emerge from their hiding place and Orestes gradually convinces her of his identity. Now, in the longest and most structurally complex lyric passage in extant Greek tragedy, the chorus, Orestes, and Electra, attempt to conjure the departed spirit of Agamemnon to aid them in revenging his murder. Orestes then asks "why she sent libations, what calculation led her to offer too late atonement for a hurt past cure" (l.515-516). The chorus responds that in the palace of Argos Clytemnestra was roused from slumber by a nightmare: she dreamt that she gave birth to a snake, and the snake now feeds from her breast and draws blood along with milk. Alarmed by this, a possible sign of the gods' wrath, she "sent these funeral libations" (l.538). Orestes believes that he is the snake in his mother's dream, so together with Electra they plan to avenge their father by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her new husband, Aegisthus.
Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474255080
Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ancient audience. His discussion explores the impact of the chorus, the characters, theology, and the play's apparent affinities with comedy. The architecture of choral songs is described in detail. The book also investigates the role of revenge in Athenian society and the problematic nature of Orestes' matricide. Libation Bearers immediately entered the Athenian visual imagination, influencing artistic depictions on red-figured vases, and inspiring plays by Euripides and Sophocles. This study looks to the later plays to show how 5th-century audiences understood Libation Bearers. Modern reception of the play is integrated into the analysis. The volume includes a full range of ancillary material, providing a list of relevant red-figure vase illustrations, a glossary of technical terms, and a chronology of ancient and modern theatrical versions.
Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783986771706
Choephori Aeschylus - Also known as 'The Libation Bearers' this is the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. Many years after king Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his wife Clytamnestra and her lover Aigisthos, his son Orestes returns home with Pylades to mourn at his grave. He has been living in exile and has come back to Argos in secret; his mission is to avenge Agamemnon's death.Orestes arrives at the grave of his father, accompanied by his cousin Pylades, the son of the king of Phocis, where he has grown up in exile; he places two locks of his hair on the tomb. Orestes and Pylades hide as Electra, Orestes' sister, arrives at the grave accompanied by a chorus of elderly slave women (the libation bearers of the title) to pour libations on Agamemnon's grave; they have been sent by Clytemnestra in an effort to ward off harm. Just as the ritual ends, Electra spots a lock of hair on the tomb which she recognizes as similar to her own; subsequently she sees two sets of footprints, one of which has proportions similar to hers. At this point Orestes and Pylades emerge from their hiding place and Orestes gradually convinces her of his identity.
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015025117295
Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136540233
This volume is available on its own or as part of the seven volume set, Greek Literature. This collection reprints in facsimile the most influential scholarship published in this field during the twentieth century. For a complete list of the volume titles in this set, see the listing for Greek Literature [ISBN 0-8153-3681-0]. A full table of contents can be obtained by email: [email protected].
Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474255097
Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ancient audience. His discussion explores the impact of the chorus, the characters, theology, and the play's apparent affinities with comedy. The architecture of choral songs is described in detail. The book also investigates the role of revenge in Athenian society and the problematic nature of Orestes' matricide. Libation Bearers immediately entered the Athenian visual imagination, influencing artistic depictions on red-figured vases, and inspiring plays by Euripides and Sophocles. This study looks to the later plays to show how 5th-century audiences understood Libation Bearers. Modern reception of the play is integrated into the analysis. The volume includes a full range of ancillary material, providing a list of relevant red-figure vase illustrations, a glossary of technical terms, and a chronology of ancient and modern theatrical versions.
Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804736987
Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. By showing how frequently the "later" Nietzsche appears in the early writings, the author hopes to provoke reflection on the adequacy of the developmental logic that has been a controlling factor in Nietzsche's reception.
Author : Richard Garner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317694717
The role of poetic allusion in classical Greek poetry, to Homer especially, has often largely been neglected or even almost totally ignored. This book, first published in 1990, clarifies the place of Homer in Greek education, as well as adding to the interpretation of many important tragedies. Focussing on the dramatic masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and how these writers imitated and alluded to other poetry, the author reveals the immense dependence on Homer which can be seen throughout the corpus of Attic tragedy. It is argued that the practice of the art of allusion indicates certain conventions in fifth-century Athenian education, and perhaps also suggests something in the way of public, political, and historical self-awareness. Invaluable to anyone interested in the reception of Homer in the classical age, and to students of comparative literature and linguistic theory.
Author : Bridget Martin
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789627411
Fifth-century Greek tragedy contains some of the most fascinating and important stage-ghosts in Western literature, whether the talkative Persian king Darius, who is evoked from the Underworld in Aeschylus’ Persians, or the murdered Trojan prince Polydorus, who seeks burial for his exposed corpse in Euripides’ Hecuba. These manifest figures can tell us a vast amount about the abilities of the tragic dead, particularly in relation to the nature, extent and limitations of their interaction with the living through, for example, ghost-raising ceremonies and dreams. Beyond these manifest dead, tragedy presents a wealth of invisible dead whose anger and desire for revenge bubble up from the Underworld, and whose honour and dishonour occupy the minds and influence the actions of the living. Combining both these manifest and invisible dead, this book examines harmful interaction between the living and the dead, i.e. how the living can harm the dead, and how the dead can harm the living. This includes discussions on the extent to which the dead are aware of and can react to honourable or dishonourable treatment by the living, the social stratification of the Underworld, the consequences of corpse exposure and mutilation for both the living and the dead, and how the dead can use and collaborate with avenging agents, such as the gods, the living and the Erinyes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044005548821
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF990984572