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Record Nr.

UNISA996200082903316

Autore

Sommerstein Alan H

Titolo

The tangled ways of Zeus [[electronic resource] ] : and other studies in and around Greek tragedy / / Alan H. Sommerstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-19-161422-X

1-282-73074-6

9786612730740

0-19-157660-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

882.0109

Soggetti

Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [288]-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The titles of Greek dramas""; ""2. Violence in Greek drama""; ""3. Adolescence, ephebeia, and Athenian drama""; ""4. Sherlockismus and the study of fragmentary tragedies""; ""5. The seniority of Polyneikes in Aeschylus� Seven""; ""6. The beginning and the end of Aeschylus� Danaid trilogy""; ""7. The theatre audience, the Demos, and the Suppliants of Aeschylus""; ""8. Sleeping safe in our beds: stasis, assassination, and the Oresteia""; ""9. The tangled ways of Zeus""; ""10. The omen of Aulis or the omen of Argos?""

""11. Pathos and mathos before Zeus""""12. Oresteia Act II: two misconceptions""; ""13. Aeschylus� epitaph""; ""14. Dearest Haimon""; ""15. �They all knew how it was going to end�: tragedy, myth, and the spectator""; ""16. Alternative scenarios in Sophocles� Electra""; ""17. Sophocles� Palamedes and Nauplius plays: no trilogy here""; ""18. �The rugged Pyrrhus�: the son of Achilles in tragedy""; ""19. What ought the Thebans to have done?""; ""References""; ""Index locorum""; ""General index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""

""N""""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Z""

Sommario/riassunto

This is a collection of studies written over the last 20 years by the



distinguished classicist Alan Sommerstein about various aspects of ancient Greek tragedy (and, in some cases, other related genres).