1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461266503321

Autore

Balla Ibolya

Titolo

Ben Sira on family, gender, and sexuality [[electronic resource] /] / Ibolya Balla

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2011

ISBN

1-283-16609-7

9786613166098

3-11-024747-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies, , 1865-1666 ; ; v. 8

Disciplina

229/.407

Soggetti

Families - Biblical teaching

Sex role - Biblical teaching

Sex - Biblical teaching

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- Introduction with literature review and methodology -- Chapter 1: Respect for fathers and mothers and the treatmentofwidows -- Chapter 2: The anxiety of bringing up children: teachings on sons and daughters -- Chapter 3: Teachings on marital relationships -- Chapter 4: Teachings on sexual behaviour that is either illicit and/or discouraged, including adultery and approaching prostitutes, virgins, maidservants -- Chapter 5: Wisdom poems -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index of modern authors -- Index of ancient texts

Sommario/riassunto

The book investigates Ben Sira's attitudes toward all matters pertaining to sexuality in the context of family relations and gender issues. The author's seemingly negative attitude to women, the anxiety expressed in the discussions of marital and extramarital relations, and the disciplining of children can lead to the assumption that the work has a negative attitude toward sexuality. Ben Sira's book is a combination of carefully composed wisdom poems and of teachings on everyday issues, including marriage, family life, self-control, desires, and sexual promiscuity. The sage dedicates a greater number of passages than



other wisdom books to the discussion of social relations especially in regard to family. In so doing his regular point of departure seems to be what benefits or damages these relations mean, and whether they bring disgrace to a person, especially through sexuality. In addition, we have to make a distinction between the attitudes of the writer of the original Hebrew text of the book and that of the Greek translator. The two texts, produced in different social settings, times and places, differ at times in regard to sexuality.This book examines the wisdom poems, some characterized by openness about issues of eroticism, and all sayings that concern matters pertaining to sexuality found in discussions of passions, family relations and gender issues, and warnings against sexual wrongdoing. All this is done with a special regard to the differences between the Hebrew original text and the Greek translation.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910796609803321

Autore

Karamanou Ioanna

Titolo

Euripides, Alexandros : introduction, text and commentary / / by Ioanna Karamanou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

3-11-053618-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 pages)

Collana

Texte und Kommentare ; ; 57

Disciplina

882/.01

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Text -- Testimonia -- Fragmenta -- Fragmenta incertae sedis -- Fragments of uncertain location -- Fragmenta quae probabiliter ad Euripidis Alexandrum pertinent -- Fragments probably belonging to Euripides' Alexandros -- Commentary -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Passages Discussed -- Plates

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first full-scale commentary on Euripides' Alexandros, which



is one of the best preserved fragmentary tragedies. It yields insight into aspects of Euripidean style, ideology and dramatic technique (e.g. rhetoric, stagecraft and imagery) and addresses textual and philological matters, on the basis of a re-inspection of the papyrus fragments. This book offers a reconstruction of the play and an investigation of issues of characterization, staging, textual transmission and reception, not least because Alexandros has enjoyed a fascinating Nachleben in literary, dramaturgical and performative terms. It also contributes to the readers' understanding of the trends of later Euripidean drama, especially the dramatist's innovation and experimentation with plot-patterns and staging conventions. Furthermore, the analysis of Alexandros could stimulate a more comprehensive reading of the extant Trojan Women coming from the same production, which bears the features of a 'connected trilogy'. Thus, the information retrieved through the interrogation of the rich fragmentary material serves to supplement and contextualize the extant tragic corpus, showcasing the vitality and multiformity of Euripidean drama as a whole.