Tragedy And Archaic Greek Thought

Author : D. L. Cairns
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589168

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Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought by D. L. Cairns Pdf

Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Prominent topics are the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on humans; fate and human responsibility; the instability of fortune and the principle of alternation; hybris and ate; and the inheritance of guilt and suffering. Other themes are tragedy's relation with Pre-Socratic philosophy, and the interplay between 'Archaic' features of the genre and fifth-century ethical and political thought. The book makes a powerful case for the importance of Archaic thought not only in the evolution of the tragic genre, but also for developed features of the Classical tragedians' art. Along with three papers on Aeschylus, four on Sophocles, and one on Euripides, there is an extensive introduction by the editor.

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780525564645

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Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us by Simon Critchley Pdf

From the moderator of The New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone," a book that argues that if we want to understand ourselves we have to go back to theater, to the stage of our lives Tragedy presents a world of conflict and troubling emotion, a world where private and public lives collide and collapse. A world where morality is ambiguous and the powerful humiliate and destroy the powerless. A world where justice always seems to be on both sides of a conflict and sugarcoated words serve as cover for clandestine operations of violence. A world rather like our own. The ancient Greeks hold a mirror up to us in which we see all the desolation and delusion of our lives but also the terrifying beauty and intensity of existence. This is not a time for consolation prizes and the fatuous banalities of the self-help industry and pop philosophy. Tragedy allows us to glimpse, in its harsh and unforgiving glare, the burning core of our aliveness. If we give ourselves the chance to look at tragedy, we might see further and more clearly.

Author : Walter Kaufmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691020051

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Tragedy and Philosophy by Walter Kaufmann Pdf

A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.

Author : J. Peter Euben
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691218182

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The Tragedy of Political Theory by J. Peter Euben Pdf

In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by confronting the audience with the otherwise unacknowledged principles of social exclusion that sustained its community. Euben makes his argument through a series of comparisons between three dramas (Aeschylus' Oresteia, Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, and Euripides' Bacchae) and three works of classical political theory (Thucydides' History and Plato's Apology of Socrates and Republic) on the issues of justice, identity, and corruption. He brings his discussion to a contemporary American setting in a concluding chapter on Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 in which the road from Argos to Athens, built to differentiate a human domain from the undefined outside, has become a Los Angeles freeway desecrating the land and its people in a predatory urban sprawl.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English drama
ISBN : UCAL:B5190293

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Specimens of Greek Tragedy by Sophocles Pdf

Author : Alexandre Charles Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1419005471

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Time, Alternation, and the Failure of Reason by Alexandre Charles Johnston Pdf

Author : Nuria Scapin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110685633

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The Flower of Suffering by Nuria Scapin Pdf

Greek tragedy occupies a prominent place in the development of early Greek thought. However, even within the partial renaissance of debates about tragedy’s roots in the popular thought of archaic Greece, its potential connection to the early philosophical tradition remains, with few exceptions, at the periphery of current interest. This book aims to show that our understanding of Aeschylus’ Oresteia is enhanced by seeing that the trilogy’s treatment of Zeus and Justice (Dikê) shares certain concepts, assumptions, categories of thought, and forms of expression with the surviving fragments and doxography of certain Presocratic thinkers (especially Anaximander, Xenophanes, Heraclitus, and Parmenides). By examining several aspects of the tragic trilogy in relation to Presocratic debates about theology and cosmic justice, it shows how such scrutiny may affect our understanding of the theological ‘tension’ and metaphysical assumptions underpinning the Oresteia’s dramatic narrative. Ultimately, it argues that Aeschylus bestows on the experience of human suffering, as it is given in the contradictory multiplicity of the world, the status of a profound form of knowledge: a meeting point between the human and divine spheres.

Author : Aeschylus,Euripides,Sophocles
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Richard Buxton,Richard G. A. Buxton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199557615

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Myths and Tragedies in Their Ancient Greek Contexts by Richard Buxton,Richard G. A. Buxton Pdf

This work brings together Richard Buxton's studies of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship between the two. Situating and contextualising topics and themes within the world of ancient Greece, he traces the intricate variations and retellings which they underwent in Greek antiquity.

Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant,Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Greece
ISBN : UOM:39076000549324

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Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant,Pierre Vidal-Naquet Pdf

Author : John Tresidder Sheppard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : CHI:16027373

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Greek Tragedy by John Tresidder Sheppard Pdf

Author : Dana LaCourse Munteanu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139502344

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Tragic Pathos by Dana LaCourse Munteanu Pdf

Scholars have often focused on understanding Aristotle's poetic theory, and particularly the concept of catharsis in the Poetics, as a response to Plato's critique of pity in the Republic. However, this book shows that, while Greek thinkers all acknowledge pity and some form of fear as responses to tragedy, each assumes for the two emotions a different purpose, mode of presentation and, to a degree, understanding. This book reassesses expressions of the emotions within different tragedies and explores emotional responses to and discussions of the tragedies by contemporary philosophers, providing insights into the ethical and social implications of the emotions.

Author : J. Peter Euben
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0520055721

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Greek Tragedy and Political Theory by J. Peter Euben Pdf

Author : Jacqueline de Romilly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005311033

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Time in Greek Tragedy by Jacqueline de Romilly Pdf

Consists of six lectures delivered in April 1967 at Cornell Univ. as Messenger Lecturer. Mme. de Romilly takes a twentieth-century look at the concept of time as it was presented by the classic Greek tragedians.

Author : Jean Pierre Vernant
Publisher : Zone Books (NY)
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0942299191

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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece by Jean Pierre Vernant Pdf

Jean Pierre-Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, published here as a single volume, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly non-classical reading of Greek tragedy that insists on its radical discontinuity with our own outlook and with our social, aesthetic, and psychological categories. Originally published in French in two volumes, this new single-volume edition includes revised essays from volume one and is the first English translation of both volumes.Pierre Vidal-Naquet is Director of Studies and Professor of Sociology at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. Jean Pierre-Vernant is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Study of Ancient Religions at the Coll?ge de France. Janet Lloyd is a translator and writer living in England. Distributed for Zone Books.