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The tangled ways of Zeus : and other studies in and around Greek tragedy

by: Sommerstein, A.H.

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Category: Philology
Code: 15179
ISBN-13: 9780199568314 / 978-0-19-956831-4
ISBN-10: 0199568316 / 0-19-956831-6
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 342
Book Condition: New
Comments: viii, 342 p. ; 23 cm.

 This book brings together nineteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on ancient Athenian drama, especially tragedy; five of these have not previously appeared in print, and almost all the others were first published (between 1992 and 2(106) in out-of-the-way journals, collections, or conference volumes. These appear here as originally written, but are accompanied by updating addenda. Though they cover a wide range of topics from the presentation of violence in drama to the socialization of the adolescent male, from the authenticity of play titles to the significance of one character calling another 'dearest, ' most of them focus on four or five themes: the dramatists' exploitation and modification of myth; how much their audiences could know or guess in advance about the content of a play; connected suites of plays that were produced together (trilogies and tetralogies); the information that can be gleaned from our fragmentary evidence about plays that have not survived; and some of the multifarious connections between Athenian tragic drama and Athenian society, including the socioeconomic composition of audiences, the relationship between Aeschylus' Oresicia and the politics of its day, and evidence supporting the tradition that Aeschylus desired to be commemorated on his tomb not as a poet but as a soldier. All are informed by the conviction that 'the study of ancient, or any other, literature is a branch of history

The titles of Greek dramas
Violence in Greek drama
Adolescence, ephebeia, and Athenian drama
Sherlockismus and the study of fragmentary tragedies
The seniority of Polyneikes in Aeschylus' Seven
The beginning and the end of Aeschylus' Danaid trilogy
The theatre audience, the Demos, and the Suppliants of Aeschylus
Sleeping safe in our beds : stasis, assassination, and Oresteia
The tangled ways of Zeus
The omen of Aulis or the omen of Argos?
Pathos and mathos before Zeus
Oresteia act II : two misconceptions
Aeschylus' epitaph
Dearest Haimon
They all knew how it was going to end : tragedy, myth, and the spectator
Alternative scenarios in Sophocles' Electra
Sophocles' Palmedes and Nauplius plays : no trilogy here
The rugged Pyrrhus : the son of Achilles in tragedy
What ought the Thebans to have done?


Subjects:
Athen
Aufsatzsammlung
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Greek drama (Tragedy) History and criticism
Griechisch
Tragédie grecque Histoire et critique
Tragödie
Tragödie griechische Athen


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The tangled ways of Zeus : and other studies in and around Greek tragedy

by: Sommerstein, A.H.

  • ISBN-13: 9780199568314 / 978-0-19-956831-4
  • ISBN-03: 0199568316 / 0-19-956831-6
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010

Price: 125,00 EURO

(in stock)