Amit Shilo

Beyond Death in the Oresteia (eBook, ePUB)

Poetics, Ethics, and Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Oresteia is permeated with depictions of the afterlife, which have never been examined together. In this book, Amit Shilo analyzes their intertwined and conflicting implications. He argues for a 'poetics of multiplicity' and a 'poetics of the beyond' that inform the ongoing debates over justice, fate, ethics, and politics in the trilogy. The book presents novel, textually grounded readings of Cassandra's fate, Clytemnestra's ghost scene, mourning ritual, hero cult, and punishment by Hades. It offers a fresh perspective on the political thought of the trilogy by contrasting the ethical focus of the Erinyes and Hades with Athena's insistence on divine unity and warfare. Shedding new light on the trilogy as a whole, this book is crucial reading for students and scholars of classical literature and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108961936
• Artikelnr.: 66181462

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.