Gary S. Meltzer

Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the theme of the lost voice of truth and justice in four plays by Euripides.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9781107407251
• ISBN-10: 1107407257
• Artikelnr.: 36196885

Autorenporträt

Gary Meltzer has taught at George Washington University, Catholic University, and Eckerd College. He is currently adjunct professor of humanities at Villanova University. A visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, he has contributed to Classical Antiquity, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Helios, Classical and Modern Literature, and Text and Presentation.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The 'Just Voice' and the 'Word of Truth': divine revelation or mythopoetic construct?
2. The 'Just Voice' as paradigmatic metaphor in the Hippolytus
3. The body's cry for justice in the Hecuba
4. The voice of Apollo and the 'Empire of Signs' in the Ion
5. 'Where is the glory of Troy?' Kleos in the Helen.