Amit Shilo

Beyond Death in the Oresteia (eBook, PDF)

Poetics, Ethics, and Politics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Argues that diverse representations of the afterlife in the Oresteia require reevaluation of its fundamental ethical and political dilemmas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108962216
• Artikelnr.: 70913649

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.