Amit Shilo (Santa Barbara University of California)

Beyond Death in the Oresteia

Poetics, Ethics, and Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

The diverse afterlife scenarios that pervade the Oresteia have never been examined together. This innovative study argues that they transform its thematic, ethical, and political issues. A new approach to a central work of world literature, this book is crucial reading for students and scholars of Greek literature and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 524g
• ISBN-13: 9781108832748
• ISBN-10: 1108832741
• Artikelnr.: 63939795

Autorenporträt

Amit Shilo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a cofounder of Classics and Social Justice. He has published on Plato and Greek Tragedy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The herald of the Agamemnon: Accounting the dead
2. The Chorus of the Agamemnon: Human views on the beyond. 3. Prophecy on the banks of the Acheron: Thinking Cassandra past her doom
4. Afterlives at the tomb of Agamemnon
5. Heroes in the Oresteia
6. The ghost of Clytemnestra
7. The tablet-writing mind of Hades: Omniscient ethical judgment.