The Gorgon's Severed Head : Studies in Alcestis, Electra and Phoenissae

by: Luschnig, C.A.E.

Price: 124,00 EURO

1 copy in stock

The Gorgon's Severed Head
Studies in Alcestis, Electra and Phoenissae
Series:
Mnemosyne, Supplements, Volume: 153
Author: Cecelia Eaton Luschnig
The Gorgon's Severed Head looks at three plays of Euripides, one early, one middle and one late in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, in the representation of women and of gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays characters are depicted creating themselves and each other. Chapter One on Alcestis looks at the artistry of the two main characters and is especially concerned with finding a role for Admetus, the play's most serious problem. The second chapter treats the physical displacement of the myth in Euripides' version of the Electra-Orestes story. A last section approaches the layers of time and space in Phoenissae.

The Gorgon's Severed Head : Studies in Alcestis, Electra and Phoenissae

by: Luschnig, C.A.E.

• ISBN-13: 9789004103825 / 978-90-04-10382-5
• ISBN-03: 9004103821 / 90-04-10382-1
• E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1995

Price: 124,00 EURO

1 copy in stock