The Use Of Anonymous Characters In Greek Tragedy

Author : Florence Yoon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004233430

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The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy by Florence Yoon Pdf

Anonymous characters appear in almost every extant Greek Tragedy, yet they have long been overlooked in critical scholarship. This book argues that the creation and use of anonymous figures is an important tool in the transformation of traditional mythological heroes into unique dramatic characters. Through close reading of the passages in which nameless characters appear, this study demonstrates the significant impact of their speech, actions, and identity on the characterization of the particular named heroes to whom they are attached. Exploring the boundaries between anonymity and naming in mythico-historical drama, the book draws attention to an important but neglected aspect of the genre, suggesting a new perspective from which to read, perform, and appreciate Greek Tragedy.

Author : Mario Telò,Melissa Mueller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350028807

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The Materialities of Greek Tragedy by Mario Telò,Melissa Mueller Pdf

Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three major Greek tragedians problematize objects and affect, providing fresh readings of some of the masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The so-called new materialisms have complemented the study of objects as signifiers or symbols with an interest in their agency and vitality, their sensuous force and psychosomatic impact-and conversely their resistance and irreducible aloofness. At the same time, emotion has been recast as material "affect,†? an intense flow of energies between bodies, animate and inanimate. Powerfully contributing to the current critical debate on materiality, the essays collected here destabilize established interpretations, suggesting alternative approaches and pointing toward a newly robust sense of the physicality of Greek tragedy.

Author : Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110621693

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Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama by Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko Pdf

This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from their context and immersed in a new whole, in which they work both as cohesive unities and detachable entities. Sections of poetic works circulated in antiquity not only as parts of a whole, but also independently, i.e. as component fractions, rather like quotations on facebook today. Fragmentation can thus be seen operating on the level of dissociation, but also on the level of cohesion. The volume investigates interpretive possibilities, quotation contexts, production and reception stages of fragmentary texts, looking into the ways dramatic fragments can either increase the depth of fragmentation or strengthen the intensity of cohesion.

Author : Evert van Emde Boas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192512215

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Language and Character in Euripides' Electra by Evert van Emde Boas Pdf

This study of Euripides' Electra approaches the text through the lens of modern linguistics, marrying it with traditional literary criticism in order to provide new and informative means of analysing and interpreting what is considered to be one of the playwright's most controversial works. It is the first systematic attempt to apply a variety of modern linguistic theories, including conversation analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics (on gender and politeness), paroemiology, and discourse studies, to a single Greek tragedy. The volume focuses specifically on issues of characterization, demonstrating how Euripides shaped his figures through their use of language, while also using the same methodology to tackle some of the play's major textual issues. An introductory chapter treats each of the linguistic approaches used throughout the book, and discusses some of the general issues surrounding the play's interpretation. This is followed by chapters on the figures of the Peasant, Electra herself, and Orestes, in each case showing how their characterization is determined by their speaking style and their 'linguistic behaviour'. Three further chapters focus on textual criticism in stichomythia, on the messenger speech, and on the agon. By using modern linguistic methodologies to argue for a balanced interpretation of the Electra's main characters, the volume both challenges dominant scholarly opinion and enhances the literary interpretation of this well-studied play. Taking full account of recent and older work in both linguistics and classics, it will be of use to readers and researchers in both fields, and includes translations of all Greek cited and a glossary of linguistic terminology to make the text accessible to both.

Author : Stavroula Kiritsi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527544949

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Menander’s Characters in Context by Stavroula Kiritsi Pdf

Menander was renowned—and still is—for his naturalistic representations of character and emotion. However, times change, and our ideas of what is ‘natural’ change with them. To appreciate Menander’s art fully, we need to attune ourselves to the expectations of his time, and for this there is no better guide than Aristotle (along with his successor Theophrastus), who described and analysed notions of character and emotion in brilliant detail. This book examines the relevant observations of Aristotle, and explores two of Menander’s comedies in this light. It also discusses how these comedies, which have only been recovered in the past century, were adapted and performed on the Modern Greek stage, where tastes were different and Menander had been virtually unknown. The book’s comparison of the ancient originals and the modern versions sheds new light on both, as well as on cultural values then and now.

Author : Claire Catenaccio
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009300148

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Monody in Euripides by Claire Catenaccio Pdf

The solo singer takes center stage in Euripides' late tragedies. Solo song – what the Ancient Greeks called monody – is a true dramatic innovation, combining and transcending the traditional poetic forms of Greek tragedy. At the same time, Euripides uses solo song to explore the realm of the interior and the personal in an expanded expressive range. Contributing to the current scholarly debate on music, emotion, and characterization in Greek drama, this book presents a new vision for the role of monody in the musical design of Ion, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Phoenician Women, and Orestes. Drawing on her practical experience in the theater, Catenaccio establishes the central importance of monody in Euripides' art.

Author : C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107073753

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The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen by C. W. Marshall Pdf

In his detailed study of Euripides' play, Helen, C. W. Marshall expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and Classical performance.

Author : Nicholas Baechle
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110610994

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Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides’ ›Electra‹ by Nicholas Baechle Pdf

Euripides’ Electra opened up for its audience an opportunity to become self-aware as to the appeal of tragic Kunstsprache: it both reflected and sustained traditional, aristocratically-inflected assumptions about the continuity of appearance and substance, even in a radical democracy. A complex analogy between social and aesthetic valuation is played out and brought to light. The characterization of Orestes early in the play demonstrates how social appearances made clear the identity of well-born, and how they were still assumed to indicate superior virtue and agency. On the aesthetic side of the analogy, one of the functions of tragic diction, as an essential indication of heroic character and agency, comes into view in a dramatic and thematic sequence that begins with Achilles ode and ends with the planning of the murders. Serious doubts are created as to whether Orestes will realize the assumed potential inherent in his heroic genealogy and, at the same time, as to whether the components of his character as an aesthetic construct are congruent with such qualities and agency. Both sides of this complex analogy are thus problematized, and, at a metapoetic level, its nature and bases are exposed for reflection.

Author : Andreas Markantonatos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110330977

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Euripides' "Alcestis" by Andreas Markantonatos Pdf

This volume is an accessible yet in-depth narratological study of Euripides’ Alcestis - the earliest extant play of Euripides and one of the most experimental masterpieces of Greek tragedy, not only standing in place of a satyr-play but also preserving at least some of its typical features. Commencing from the widely-held view, so lamentably ignored within the domain of Classics, that a narratology of drama should be predicated upon the notion of narrative as verbal, as well as visual, rendition of a story, this unique volume contextualizes the play in terms of its reception by the original audience, locating the intricate narrative tropes of the plot in the dynamics of fifth-century Athenian mythology and religion.

Author : Gréta Kádas,Sara Macías Otero,Sandra Rodríguez Piedrabuena
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527522367

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Approaches to Greek and Latin Language, Literature and History by Gréta Kádas,Sara Macías Otero,Sandra Rodríguez Piedrabuena Pdf

This peer-reviewed collection of essays provides an account of several current foci of research in Classics. It gathers fifteen contributions covering subjects such as Greek and Latin papyrology and epigraphy. It also includes approaches to various key literary texts, from Homer to post-classical Humanists, in addition to chapters on navigation, coinage, and sculpture. This book represents a useful research tool for a wide range of scholars in Greek, Latin and Ancient History, as well as an up-to-date source for any classicist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521593618

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Euripides: Ion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108627412

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Euripides: Ion by Euripides Pdf

Ion is one of Euripides' most appealing and inventive plays. With its story of an anonymous temple slave discovered to be the son of Apollo and Creusa, an Athenian princess, it is a rare example of Athenian myth dramatized for the Athenian stage. It explores the Delphic Oracle and Greek piety; the Athenian ideology of autochthony and empire; and the tragic suffering and longing of the mythical foundling and his mother, whose experiences are represented uniquely in surviving Greek literature. The plot anticipates later Greek comedy, while the recognition scene builds on a tradition founded by Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus' Oresteia. The introduction sets out the main issues in interpretation and discusses the play's contexts in myth, religion, law, politics, and society. By attending to language, style, meter, and dramatic technique, this edition with its detailed commentary makes Ion accessible to students, scholars, and readers of Greek at all levels.

Author : Amit Shilo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108832748

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Beyond Death in the Oresteia by Amit Shilo Pdf

Argues that diverse representations of the afterlife in the Oresteia require reevaluation of its fundamental ethical and political dilemmas.

Author : Gunther Martin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110523591

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Euripides, "Ion" by Gunther Martin Pdf

Euripides’ Ion is a highly complex and elusive play and thus poses considerable difficulties to any interpreter. On the basis of a new recension of the text, this commentary offers explanations of the language, literary technique, and realia of the play and discusses the main issues of interpretation. In this way the reader is provided with the material required for an appreciation of this entertaining as well as provocative dramatic composition.

Author : Andreas Markantonatos,Eleni Volonaki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110629729

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Poet and Orator by Andreas Markantonatos,Eleni Volonaki Pdf

This multiauthored volume, as well as bringing into clearer focus the notion of drama and oratory as important media of public inquiry and critique, aims to generate significant attention to the unified intentions of the dramatist and the orator to establish favourable conditions of internal stability in democratic Athens. We hope that readers both enjoy and find valuable their engagement with these ideas and beliefs regarding the indissoluble bond between oratorical expertise and dramatic artistry. This exciting collection of studies by worldwide acclaimed classicists and acute younger Hellenists is envisaged as part of the general effort, almost unanimously acknowledged as valid and productive, to explore the impact of formalized speech in particular and craftsmanship rhetoric in general upon Attic drama as a moral and educational force in the Athenian city-state. Both poet and orator seek to deepen the central tensions of their work and to enlarge the main themes of their texts to even broader terms by investing in the art of rhetoric, whilst at the same time, through a skillful handling of events, evaluating the past and establishing standards or ideology.