Author: EuripidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Heraclidae
Author: EuripidesThe Heraclidae
Author: EuripidesPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Euripides: The Supplicants. Hercules. The Heraclidae. Iphigenia in Aulis. Rhesus. The Trojan dames
Author: EuripidesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Heraclidae
Author: EuripidesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198150244
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This edition and commentary provides an invaluable introduction to one of Euripides' lesser-known plays. The play is centered round the fortunes of the children of Heracles and their persecution at the hands of the king of Athens, Eurystheus. Wilkins's commentary interprets the poetic and dramatic features of the play, and also locates it in its cultural setting, discussing its importance to the understanding of Greek cults and religious rituals. The Greek text matches that of the Oxford Classical Text.
Euripides: the Children of Heracles
Author: William AllanPublisher: Aris and Phillips Classical Te
ISBN: 0856687405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The Children of Heracles is a powerful and challenging tragedy of exile and supplication. Driven from their homeland by Eurystheus, king of Argos, the children of Heracles flee as fugitives throughout Greece until they are granted protection in Athens.
Ideology of Democratic Athens
Author: Matteo BarbatoPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474466443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.
Ancient Memory
Author: Katharine MawfordPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110728796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Although the recent ‘memory boom’ has led to increasing interdisciplinary interest, there is a significant gap relating to the examination of this topic in Classics. In particular, there is need for a systematic exploration of ancient memory and its use as a critical and methodological tool for delving into ancient literature. The present volume provides just such an approach, theorising the use and role of memory in Graeco-Roman thought and literature, and building on the background of memory studies. The volume’s contributors apply theoretical models such as memoryscapes, civic and cultural memory, and memory loss to a range of authors, from Homeric epic to Senecan drama, and from historiography to Cicero’s recollections of performances. The chapters are divided into four sections according to the main perspective taken. These are: 1) the Mechanics of Memory, 2) Collective memory, 3) Female Memory, and 4) Oblivion. This modern approach to ancient memory will be useful for scholars working across the range of Greek and Roman literature, as well as for students, and a broader interdisciplinary audience interested in the intersection of memory studies and Classics.
An English Commentary on the Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Heraclidae, Supplices, and Troades of Euripides
Author: Charles AnthonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Heracles and Other Plays
Author: Euripides,Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199555095
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The first three plays in this volume are typical of Euripides, filled with violence or its threat, while the fourth, Cyclops, is a satyr play, full of crude and slapstick humour. Alcestis shows various reactions to death with pathos and grim humour while the blood-soaked Heracles portrays deep emotional pain and undeserved suffering. Children of Heracles deals with the effects of war on refugees and the consequences of sheltering them.
The Oxford Handbook of Heracles
Author: Daniel OgdenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190650982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
"The first half of the volume is devoted to the exposition of the ancient evidence, literary and iconographic, for the traditions of Heracles' life and deeds. After a chapter each on the hero's childhood and his madness, the canonical cause of his Twelve Labors, each of the Labors themselves receives detailed treatment in a dedicated chapter. The 'Parerga' or 'Side-Labors' are then treated in a similar level of detail in seven further chapters. In the second half of the book the Heracles tradition is analysed from a range of thematic perspectives. After consideration of the contrasting projections of the figure across the major literary genres, Epic, Tragedy, Comedy, Philosophy, and in the iconographic register, a number of his myth-cycle's diverse fils rouges are pursued: Heracles' fashioning as a folkloric quest-hero; his relationships with the two great goddesses, the Hera that persecutes him and the Athena that protects him; and the rationalisation and allegorisation of his cycle's constituent myths. The ways are investigated in which Greek communities and indeed Alexander the Great exploited the figure both in the fashioning of their own identities and for political advantage. The cult of Heracles is considered in its Greek manifestation, in its syncretism with that of the Phoenician Melqart, and in its presence at Rome, the last study leading into discussion of the use made of Heracles by the Roman emperors themselves and then by early Christian writers. A final chapter offers an authoritative perspective on the limitless subject of Heracles' reception in the western tradition"--
