Euripides and the Judgement of Paris
Author: T. C. W. Stinton
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Published: 1965
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
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The Judgment of Paris
Author: Hubert Damisch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996-06-15
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780226135106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas of sexual difference and pleasure. Damisch's tale begins with the judgment of Paris, in which Paris awards Venus the golden apple and thus forever links beauty with desire. The casting of this decision as a mistake—in which desire is rewarded over wisdom and strength—is then linked to theories of the unconscious and psychological drives. In his quest for an exposition of the beautiful in its relation to visual pleasure, Damisch employs what he terms “analytic iconology,” following the revisions and repetitions of the motif of the judgment through art history, philosophy, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. This translation brings an important figure of the French art historical tradition to Anglo-American audiences.
Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human
Author: Mark Ringer
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2016-07-29
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1498518443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEuripides and the Boundaries of the Human presents the first single-volume reading in nearly fifty years of all of Euripides’ surviving plays. Rather than examining one or a handful of dramas in monograph or article form, Mark Ringer insists on the thematic and stylistic parallels that unite a diverse canon of works. Euripides is often referred to as the most modern of the three Ancient Greek tragedians, but in what way can the work of this fifth-century B.C. artist be claimed as modern? The multi-layered presentation of character is new within the context of Athenian Tragedy. The plays also reveal equal concern with the preservation and re-vitalization of tradition, especially with respect to the portrayal of the Olympian gods. Euripidean drama upholds tradition just as vigorously as it posits a new kind of realism in character portrayal in the Ancient Theatre. Euripidean drama fuses what was old with what was new in order to revitalize and perpetuate the art of tragedy. This book will be of interest to professionals and students in the fields of classics, Greek drama in translation or in the original Greek, theater studies, comparative literature, tragedy, and religion.
Euripides: Andromache
Author: Hanna M. Roisman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-10-20
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1350256285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides' Andromache. Its presentation seeks to combine depth of analysis with clarity and accessibility. It discusses Greek theatre and performance, the myth behind the play, and the literary, intellectual, and political context in which it was written and first performed. The book provides analyses of the various characters, and highlights the play's ambiguities and complexities. What makes Andromache of special interest is the fact that, of the 32 extant tragedies, it might have been originally produced outside Athens. This in turn leads the discussion of how the play's scrutiny of the Spartan characters affected the off-stage audience. Andromache is the only play that portrays the human toll caused by the Trojan War to both the Trojan and the Greek sides. After the Fall of Troy, Andromache, former wife of Hector, has been given to Neoptolemus, Achilles' son, as a war-prize. Andromache bore Neoptolemus a son, Molossus, before Neoptolemus married Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. While Neoptolemus is away, Menelaus and Hermione attempt to kill Andromache and Molossus, causing a rift between the two families who were the major players in the War: the house of Atreus and the house of Peleus, father of Achilles. Although Neoptolemus is murdered, the play ends with a prophecy for the future of the line of descent of Peleus and Thetis in the form of the blessed kingdom of Molossia.
Harvard studies in classical philology
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published:
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780674379237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 88
Author: D. R. Shackleton Bailey
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780674379350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of thirteen essays includes "Tantalus and Anaxagoras"; "Notes on Seneca 'Rhetor'"; "More on Pseudo-Quintilian's Longer Declamations"; "Lurius Varus, a Stray Consular Legate"; and "Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: The Modern View of Dionysus from Nietzsche to Girard."
The Tale of the Hero who was Exposed at Birth in Euripidean Tragedy
Author: Marc Huys
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789061867135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEuripidean Polemic
Author: N. T. Croally
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-10-20
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780521464901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book sets out to interpret Euripides' The Trojan Women in the light of a view of tragedy which sees its function, as it was understood in classical Athens, as being didactic. This function, the author argues, was carried out by an examination of the ideology to which the audience subscribed. The Trojan Women, powerfully exploiting the dramatic context of the aftermath of the Trojan War, is a remarkable example of tragic teaching. The play questions a series of mutually reinforcing polarities (man/god; man/woman; Greek/barbarian; free/slave) through which an Athenian citizen defined himself, and also examines the dangers of rhetoric and the value of victory in war. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of interpretation, the author is able to offer a coherent view of a number of long-standing problems in Euripidean and tragic criticism, namely the relation of Euripides to the sophists, the pervasive self-reference and anachronism in Euripides, the problem of contemporary reference, and the construction and importance of the tragic scene. The book, which makes use of recent scholarship both in Classics and in critical theory, should be read by all those interested in Greek tragedy and in the culture of late fifth-century Athens.
Myths and Tragedies in Their Ancient Greek Contexts
Author: R. G. A. Buxton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-07-25
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0199557616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work brings together Richard Buxton's studies of Greek mythology and Greek tragedy, focusing especially on the interrelationship between the two. Situating and contextualising topics and themes within the world of ancient Greece, he traces the intricate variations and retellings which they underwent in Greek antiquity.
Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy
Author: Thalia Papadopoulou
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-07-14
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781139446679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEuripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play of great complexity, exploring the co-existence of both positive and negative aspects of the eponymous hero. Euripides treats Heracles' ambivalence by showing his uncertain position after the completion of his labours and turns him into a tragic hero by dramatizing his development from the invincible hero of the labours to the courageous bearer of suffering. This book offers a comprehensive reading of Heracles examining it in the contexts of Euripidean dramaturgy, Greek drama and fifth-century Athenian society. It shows that the play, which raises profound questions on divinity and human values, deserves to have a prominent place in every discussion about Euripides and about Greek tragedy. Tracing some of Euripides' most spectacular writing in terms of emotional and intellectual effect, and discussing questions of narrative, rhetoric, stagecraft and audience reception, this work is required reading for all students and scholars of Euripides.
