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Subject(s)

• Euripides—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Gods, Greek, in literature [Browse]
• Anthropomorphism in literature [Browse]

Series

Cornell studies in classical philology [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction : Euripides's poetic game and law of composition
• Anthropomorphism
• The protection of the self and the role of sophia
• Some connotations of sophia
• Polyneikes' truth
• Hecuba's rhetoric
• Eros in Euripides's poetics : sex as the cause of the Trojan War
• The lewd gaze of the eye
• The power of love : who is Aphrodite?
• Phaedra
• Hermione : the Andromache
• Female victims of war : The Troades
• Survival in poetry
• Figures of metalepsis : the invention of literature
• The failure of politics in Euripides's poetics : politics in Suppliant women
• Political philosophy : a universal program of peace and progress
• How to deliberate a war
• Democracy and monarchy
• The battle
• The rescue of the corpses
• Return to arms
• The polis's loss of control and authority
• The Bacchants' gospel and the Greek city
• Pentheus and Tiresias
• Dionysus' revenge : first round
• Revenge prepares its murderous weapons
• Initiation and sacrifice
• Victory and defeat
• Euripides's poetry.

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ISBN

• 9781501700613 ((hardback))
• 1501700618 ((hardback))

LCCN

2015036262

OCLC

921926760

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