Late Sophocles : the hero's evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus / / Thomas Van Nortwick

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910265236903321
• Autore: Van Nortwick Thomas <1946->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , [2015]
• ISBN: 0-472-90107-9; 0-472-12108-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 148 pages)
• Disciplina: 882/.01
• Soggetti: Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical; Literature - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-143) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : The Artist in Old Age -- Electra : Glory Bathed in Tears -- Philoctetes : The Creature in the Cave -- Oedipus at Colonus : Spiritual ; Geography -- Late Sophocles.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Only a few plays by Sophocles--one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens--have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles' treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian audiences of the Periclean age: How could the Athenians incorporate older, aristocratic ideas about human excellence into their new democratic society? Could citizens learn to be morally excellent, or were these qualities only inherited? What did it mean to be a creature who knows that he or she must die? Late Sophocles traces the evolution of the Sophoclean hero through the final three plays, Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. The book's main thesis, that Sophocles reimagined the nature of the tragic hero in his last three works, is developed inductively through readings of the plays. This balanced approach, in which a detailed argument about the plays is offered in a format accessible to nonspecialists, is unusual--perhaps unique--in contemporary Classical scholarship on Sophocles. This book will appeal to nonspecialist readers of serious literature as well as scholars of classical and other literatures. While including ample guidance for those not familiar with the plays, Late Sophocles goes beyond a generalized description of "what happens" in the plays to offer a clear, jargon-free argument for the enduring importance of Sophocles' plays. The argument's implications for longstanding interpretational issues will be of interest to specialists. All Greek is translated." --

Time and complexity in historical ecology : studies in the neotropical lowlands / / edited by William Balée and Clark L. Erickson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956260403321
• Autore: Balée William
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Columbia University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-231-50961-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (777 p.)
• Collana: The historical ecology series
• Altri autori (Persone): BaléeWilliam L. <1954->; EricksonClark L
• Disciplina: 304.2/098
• Soggetti: Human ecology - Latin America; Human ecology - Tropics; Rain forest ecology - Latin America; Ethnobiology - Latin America; Agriculture - Tropics; Land use - Latin America; Landscape changes - Latin America
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers originally presented at the Symposium on Neotropical Historical Ecology at the Neotropical Ecology Institute of Tulane University in October 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Preface / Balée, William / Erickson, Clark -- Contributors -- Time, Complexity, and Historical Ecology / Balée, William / Erickson, Clark L. -- PART 1 -- 1. The Feral Forests of the Eastern Petén / Campbell, David G. / Ford, Anabel / Lowell, Karen S. / Walker, Jay / Lake, Jeffrey K. / Campo-Raeder, Constanza / Townesmith, Andrew / Balick, Michael -- 2. A Neotropical Framework for Terra Preta / Graham, Elizabeth -- 3. Domesticated Food and Society in Early Coastal Peru / Hastorf, Christine A. -- 4. Microvertebrate Synecology and Anthropogenic Footprints in the Forested Neotropics / Stahl, Peter W. -- PART 2 -- 5. Pre-European Forest Cultivation in Amazonia / Denevan, William M. -- 6. Fruit Trees and the Transition to Food Production in Amazonia / Clement, Charles R. -- 7. The Historical Ecology of a Complex Landscape in Bolivia / Erickson, Clark L. / Balée, William -- 8. The Domesticated Landscapes ; of the Bolivian Amazon / Erickson, Clark L. -- 9. Political Economy and Pre-Columbian Landscape Transformations in Central Amazonia / Neves, Eduardo G. / Petersen, James B. -- 10. History, Ecology, and Alterity / Heckenberger, Michael -- 11. Between the Ship and the Bulldozer / Cormier, Loretta A. -- 12. Landscapes of the Past, Footprints of the Future / Brondízio, Eduardo S. -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of studies by anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, and biologists is an important contribution to the emerging field of historical ecology. The book combines cutting-edge research with new perspectives to emphasize the close relationship between humans and their natural environment. Contributors examine how alterations in the natural world mirror human cultures, societies, and languages. Treating the landscape like a text, these researchers decipher patterns and meaning in the Ecuadorian Andes, Amazonia, the desert coast of Peru, and other regions in the neotropics. They show how local peoples have changed the landscape over time to fit their needs by managing and modifying species diversity, enhancing landscape heterogeneity, and controlling ecological disturbance. In turn, the environment itself becomes a form of architecture rich with historical and archaeological significance. Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology explores thousands of years of ecological history while also addressing important contemporary issues, such as biodiversity and genetic variation and change. Engagingly written and expertly researched, this book introduces and exemplifies a unique method for better understanding the link between humans and the biosphere.