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Author: Claire Catenaccio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-07-31
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1009300121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores Euripides' use of monody, or solo actor's song, to express emotion and develop character in his late tragedies.
Author: Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014-10-30
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9783161531262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe claim that Revelation's hymns function as did Classical tragic choral lyrics insofar as they comment upon or interpret the surrounding narrative has become axiomatic in studies of Revelation. Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler marks an advance in this line of inquiry by offering an exegetical analysis of Revelation's hymns alongside a presentation of the forms and functions of ancient tragic choruses and choral lyrics. Evaluating the hymns in light of the varieties and complexities of ancient tragic choruses, he demonstrate that they are not best evaluated in terms of choral lyrics generally, but in terms of dramatic hymns in particular, insofar as they constitute mythological-theological reflections on the surrounding narrative, and function to situate the surrounding dramatic activity in a particular mythological-theological contexts.
Author: Edith Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-10-12
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 0199298890
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of ancient Greek drama, and its relationship to the society in which it was produced. By focusing on the ways in which the plays treat gender, ethnicity, and class, and on their theatrical conventions, Edith Hall offers an extended study of the Greek theatrical masterpieces within their original social context.
Author: Hallie Marshall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-02-06
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1350142379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this selection of papers from the decennial Greek Drama V conference (Vancouver, 2017) explores the works of the ancient Greek playwrights and showcases new methodologies with which to study them. Sixteen chapters from a field of international contributors examine a range of topics, from the politics of the ancient theatre, to the role of the chorus, to the earliest history of the reception of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Employing anthropological, historical, and psychological critical methods alongside performance analysis and textual criticism, these studies bring fresh and original interpretations to the plays. Several contributions analyse fragmentary tragedies, while others incorporate ideas on the performance aspect of certain plays. The final chapters deal separately with comedy, naturally focusing on the plays of Aristophanes and Menander. Greek Drama V offers a window into where the academic field of Greek drama is now, and points towards the future scholarship it will produce.
Author: Euripides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1108627412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIon is one of Euripides' most appealing and inventive plays. With its story of an anonymous temple slave discovered to be the son of Apollo and Creusa, an Athenian princess, it is a rare example of Athenian myth dramatized for the Athenian stage. It explores the Delphic Oracle and Greek piety; the Athenian ideology of autochthony and empire; and the tragic suffering and longing of the mythical foundling and his mother, whose experiences are represented uniquely in surviving Greek literature. The plot anticipates later Greek comedy, while the recognition scene builds on a tradition founded by Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus' Oresteia. The introduction sets out the main issues in interpretation and discusses the play's contexts in myth, religion, law, politics, and society. By attending to language, style, meter, and dramatic technique, this edition with its detailed commentary makes Ion accessible to students, scholars, and readers of Greek at all levels.
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0521593611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Sells
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-12-13
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1350060534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play, and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian art, politics and society. Donald Sells locates the enduring significance of parody in the specific cultural, social and political subtexts that often frame Old Comedy's bold experiments with other genres and drive its rapid evolution in the late fifth century. Close analysis of verbal, visual and narrative strategies reveals the importance of parody and literary appropriation to the particular cultural and political agendas of specific plays. This study's broader, more flexible definition of parody as a visual – not just verbal – and multi-coded performance represents an important new step in understanding a phenomenon whose richness and diversity exceeds the primarily textual and literary terms by which it is traditionally understood.
Author: R. B. Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-05-10
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 0521848903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn exploration of the poetic qualities of the Greek tragic dramatists Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides highlighting their similarities and differences.
Author: Nikos Manousakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-06-08
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 311068781X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassics, Computer Science, and Linguistics are brought together in this book, in an attempt to provide an answer to the authorship question concerning Prometheus Bound, a disputed play in the Aeschylean corpus, by applying some well-established Computer Stylistics methods. One of the main objectives of Stylometry, which, broadly speaking, is the study of quantified style, is Authorship Attribution. In its traditional form it can range from manually calculating descriptive statistics to the use of computer-assisted methodologies. However, non-traditional Authorship Attribution drastically changed the field. It brought together modern Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence applications (machine learning, natural language processing), and its key characteristic is that it aims at developing fully-automated systems for the attribution of texts of unknown authorship. In this book the author employs a series of supervised and unsupervised techniques used in non-traditional Authorship Attribution–applied here for the first time in ancient drama. The outcome of the analysis indicates a significant distance between the disputed text and the secure plays of Aeschylus, but also various interesting (micro-linguistic) ties of affinity with other authors, especially Sophocles and Euripides.
Author: Sophocles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-08-09
Total Pages: 659
ISBN-13: 0521868092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFull-scale 2007 commentary on a revised Greek text, with original metrical analyses of the lyrical sections.
