Book Description
Examines how the tragic dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address the concerns of their time.
Author : Pantelis Michelakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2007-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521038928
Examines how the tragic dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address the concerns of their time.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1681464012
Sophocles' play is a famous retelling of Aias's (Ajax's) demise. After the armor is awarded to Odysseus, Aias feels so insulted that he wants to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. Athena intervenes and clouds his mind and vision, and he goes to a flock of sheep and slaughters them, imagining they are the Achaean leaders, including Odysseus and Agamemnon. When he comes to his senses, covered in blood, he realizes that what he has done has diminished his honor, and decides that he prefers to kill himself rather than live in shame.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Richmond Alexander Lattimore
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Author : Marianne McDonald
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0253028280
Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living performance tradition of Greek tragedy. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy is indispensable for anyone interested in performing Greek drama, and McDonald's engaging descriptions offer the necessary background to all those who desire to know more about the ancient world. With a chapter on each of the three major Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides), McDonald provides a balance of textual analysis, practical knowledge of the theatre, and an experienced look at the difficulties and accomplishments of theatrical performances. She shows how ancient Greek tragedy, long a part of the standard repertoire of theatre companies throughout the world, remains fresh and alive for contemporary audiences.
Author : William Stuart Messer
Publisher : Studies in Classical Philology
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 1918
Category : History
ISBN :
Examines aspects of the dream in Homer and Greek tragedies as an originating cause or impetus of the action in a poem or play.
Author : Antony Augoustakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,91 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1350144258
This is the first volume of essays published on the television series Troy: Fall of a City (BBC One and Netflix, 2018). Covering a wide range of engaging topics, such as gender, race and politics, international scholars in the fields of classics, history and film studies discuss how the story of Troy has been recreated on screen to suit the expectations of modern audiences. The series is commended for the thought-provoking way it handles important issues arising from the Trojan War narrative that continue to impact our society today. With discussions centered on epic narrative, cast and character, as well as tragic resonances, the contributors tackle gender roles by exploring the innovative ways in which mythological female figures such as Helen, Aphrodite and the Amazons are depicted in the series. An examination is also made into the concept of the hero and how the series challenges conventional representations of masculinity. We encounter a significant investigation of race focusing on the controversial casting of Achilles, Patroclus, Zeus and other series characters with Black actors. Several essays deal with the moral and ethical complexities surrounding warfare, power and politics. The significance of costume and production design are also explored throughout the volume.
Author : Gilbert Norwood
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
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Author : Aeschylus
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2004-08-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0141961716
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 : Peter Burian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199745412
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single volumes. This new collection retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions, with Greek line numbers and a single combined glossary added for easy reference. This volume collects Euripides' Andromache, a play that challenges the concept of tragic character and transforms expectations of tragic structure; Hecuba, a powerful story of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character; Trojan Women, a particularly intense account of human suffering and uncertainty; and Rhesos, the story of a futile quest for knowledge.