Euripides' revolution under cover : an essay / Pietro Pucci.

Author
Pucci, Pietro [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Description
1 online resource (vi, 235 pages)

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Series
Cornell studies in classical philology [More in this series]
Summary note
This work explores Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, this book goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Print version record.
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.
Other title(s)
Euripides's revolution under cover
ISBN
  • 9781501704055 ((electronic bk.))
  • 1501704052 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
951625856
Doi
  • 10.7591/9781501704055
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