Aeschylus and War

Comparative Perspectives on Seven Against Thebes
Herausgeber: Torrance, Isabelle

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relevance and value for exploring ancient, contemporary and comparative issues of war and its attendant trauma. The volume features contributions from an international cast of experts, as well as a conversation with a retired U.S. Army Lt. Col., giving her perspectives on the blending of reality and fiction in Aeschylus' war tragedies and on the potential of Greek tragedy to speak to contemporary veterans. This book is a fascinating resource for anyone interested in Aeschylus, Greek tragedy and its reception, and war literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138677005
• ISBN-10: 1138677000
• Artikelnr.: 47703132

Autorenporträt

Isabelle Torrance is Associate Professor and Research Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark. She has published numerous articles on Greek tragedy and its reception and is author of Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes (London, 2007), Metapoetry in Euripides (Oxford, 2013), and co-author of Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (Berlin, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
1 Aeschylus and War: Comparative Perspectives on Seven Against Thebes
ISABELLE TORRANCE
PART I
Modern Perspectives
2 Aeschylus and War: A Conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Kristen
Janowsky
Moderated by Olivier Morel and Isabelle Torrance; prepared for publication
by Isabelle Torrance.
3 Aeschylus, Gangland Naples, and the Siege of Sarajevo: Mario Martone's
Teatro di Guerra
ISABELLE TORRANCE
4 Thebes as High Collateral Damage Target: Moral Accountability for Killing
in Seven Against Thebes
PETER MEINECK
PART II
Ancient Perspectives
5 Greek Armies against Towns: Siege Warfare and the Seven Against Thebes
FERNANDO ECHEVERRÍA
6 Eteocles and Thebes in Aeschylus
LOWELL EDMUNDS
7 The Music of War in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes
MARK GRIFFITH
8 Fathers and Sons in War: Seven Against Thebes, Pythian 8, and the
Polemics of Genre
MARGARET FOSTER
PART III
The Destruction of Thebes, Ancient and Modern
9 Aeschylus and the Destruction of Thebes: What Did Apollo's Oracle Mean?
ALAN SOMMERSTEIN
10 The Destruction of Thebes in Brecht's Antigone (1948)
DOUGLAS CAIRNS
Bibliography
Contributors