Pantelis Michelakis, Michelakis Pantelis

Achilles in Greek Tragedy

Herausgeber: Easterling, P. E.

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology was imagined on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Dr Michelakis argues that dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address concerns of their time, from heroism and education to individualism and gender. Whether an aristocrat, a dead warrior or a young man, the tragic Achilles serves as a receptacle for competing definitions of heroism, oscillating between presence and absence, the exceptional and the paradigmatic. Tragedy draws on Achilles to display and pit against one another contrasting views of the mythological self and of its rights and obligations, powers and limitations. The book considers the whole corpus of extant Greek tragedy, with particular attention paid to Aeschylus' Myrmidons and Euripides' Hecuba and Iphigenia at Aulis.

Table of contents:
1. Introduction: Achilles in the fifth century; 2. The problematic hero: Aeschylus' Myrmidons; 3. The dead hero: Euripides' Hecuba; 4. The hero to be: Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis; 5. Mapping the heroic absence: Achilles in other plays; 6. Afterword.

This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology, and a key character in the Homeric epics, was imagined on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Dr Michelakis argues that dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address concerns of their time.

Examines how the tragic dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address the concerns of their time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9780521818438
• ISBN-10: 0521818435
• Artikelnr.: 20990365

Autorenporträt

Pantelis Michelakis is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: Achilles in the fifth century
2. The problematic hero: Aeschylus' Myrmidons
3. The dead hero: Euripides' Hecuba
4. The hero to be: Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis
5. Mapping the heroic absence: Achilles in other plays
6. Afterword
Bibliography
General index
Index of passages.