Why Athens? C

Herausgeber: Carter, D M

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of essays reconsidering Greek tragedy as a reflection of Athenian political culture. The contributors explore the role of tragedy as a distinctively Athenian cultural product and its particular relationship with the city that nurtured and hosted it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 168mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 894g
• ISBN-13: 9780199562329
• ISBN-10: 0199562326
• Artikelnr.: 32086918

Autorenporträt

D. M. Carter is Lecturer in Greek, University of Reading

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* I. Context
* 1: Peter Wilson: The glue of democracy? Tragedy, structure and
finance
* 2: D. M. Carter: Plato, drama, and rhetoric
* 3: Anne Duncan: Nothing to do with Athens? Tragedians at the courts
of tyrants
* Response
* II. Discourse
* 4: Peter Burian: Athenian tragedy as democratic discourse
* 5: Jon Hesk: Euripidean euboulia and the problem of 'tragic politics'
* 6: Elton T. E. Barker: 'Possessing an unbridled tongue': frank speech
and speaking back in Euripides' Orestes
* Response
* III. Families
* 7: Mark Griffith: Extended families, marriage, and inter-city
relations in (later) Athenian tragedy: Dynasts II
* 8: Eleanor OKell: Inheritance and the Athenian nature of Sophoclean
tragedy
* Response
* IV. Choruses
* 9: Sheila Murnaghan: Choroi achoroi: the Athenian politics of tragic
choral identity
* 10: Eirene Visvardi: Pity and panhellenic politics: choral emotion in
Euripides' Hecuba and Trojan Women
* Response
* V. Suppliants
* 11: Angeliki Tzanetou: Supplication and empire in Athenian tragedy
* 12: Graziella Vinh: Athens in Euripides' Suppliants: ritual,
politics, and theatre
* Response
* VI. Athens and Greece
* 13: David Rosenbloom: The panhellenism of Athenian tragedy
* 14: John Gibert: Hellenicity in later Euripidean tragedy
* Response