... nulle part et […] ne cesse de se répéter’, as Mortelette puts it. ²² Unlike the concentrated affective force of events elaborated within a specific, interpersonal scenario – the ‘intrafamilial killing’ and ‘destruction of the household’ involved in the majority of Greek tragedies...

...This chapter surveys translations of Greek, Roman, and continental tragedies in the 1550–1660 period. Vernacular translations of Greek tragedy were sparse with educated readers most likely encountering Greek tragedy through quotations in other works. Fragments of Roman tragedy came into English via...

... will be chiefly concerned with Greek tragedy. It is primarily an enquiry into the workings of some prominent features of the genre, in particular inherited guilt, curses, Erinyes, and decision making. Not all tragedies involve a curse, and curses are not crucial in all the plays in which they do appear. The same...

... seemed a crucial theme of the work, and its concomitant, the systematic dramatic irony that inheres deeply in the play's structure and themes, has received much attention. ³⁰ In the words of a classic handbook on Greek tragedy: ‘It is the most brilliant feature of the construction of the play...

...Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated the questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. This book gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual...

...Recent scholarship has insisted that, if we are to understand Greek tragedy correctly, we must get behind our own modern cultural assumptions, and recognize that it was written for an audience with a very different cultural background. That means that the proper way to study it is in the context...

... Sophocles Oedipus the Tyrant Croesus Epidaurus Lycophron Procles Sphinx riddle Bacchylides Hiero of Syracuse Pindar Vernant Jean Pierre νωθέστερος happiness of tyrants Hippolytus Euripides Simonides Greek tragedy Herodotus Thucydides Athenian democracy Athenian empire No one is free except...

... evidence about Athenian fighting, dance training, and citizenship—topics usually slighted in accounts of Athenian drama. ³ The subject treated here would traditionally be labeled “the origin of Greek tragedy.” But the word “origin” seems to me to claim much too much, suggesting as it does...

...This chapter discusses the approaches Sophocles used in writing Greek tragedy. It shows that Sophocles used a political approach in his play Electra, which deals with the displacement of legitimate heirs of a kingdom by a usurper who married their mother. It also highlights how...

... and the range of his language proved to be one of the greatest portrayals of a character in Greek tragedy. It adds that the versatility, range, and power, needed to play Philoctetes also effectively removed any opportunities of ridicule. Sophocles Aristophanes ephebe Euripides hero the ‘Sophoclean hero...

... Sōkratikoi Logoi syncrisis Detienne Marcel logos atheism comedy in contrast to tragedy Sisyphus fragment Empedocles oligarchy Parmenides Greek poetry Greek philosophy fifth-century intellectual culture Greek drama dramatic texts Greek tragedy “wise is Sophocles, wiser Euripides...

...This chapter talks about the second volume of Sylvia Plath's letters, which is described like Greek tragedy. It recounts the story of how Ted Hughes walked out of his marriage with Plath after a passionate affair with Assia, the wife of Canadian poet David Wevill. It also covers the feelings...

... the production offers a precedent to the politically charged adaptations of Greek tragedy that proliferated in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Chicago. It uses newspaper reviews to partially reconstruct the play’s receptions. It focuses, in particular, on the impact of touring conditions and press coverage...

...Greek tragedy has often been a point of departure in Mexico for discussing the state of the national theater. This chapter explores how the ancient genre has been associated with innovation and progress, as well as aesthetic reform, in the Mexican theater; it examines a selection of adaptations...

...The problem of the chorus (choros, choroi) is central to our contemporary understanding of the Greek tragedy, and it is deeply frustrating. On the one hand, we sense that here is something vital, perhaps almost mystical, operating powerfully and evocatively...

...This chapter examines Dionysus in '69 (1970), De Palma's filmic record of a Greek tragedy, which bears thematic relations to the two comedies, Greetings (1968) and Hi, Mom! (1970), that he shot before and after it. It asserts that the theme...

... their norms through these relationships and practices, and Hegel's model for them are often the interactions and rituals of the members of religious communities. The book's close readings reveal the ethical implications of Hegel's discussions of slavery, Greek tragedy, early modern culture wars...

... of Aeneas’ pietas, while Liberty Valance fills the role of Turnus, demonstrating Achillean traits, but in a negative light. Yet the film also has a close kinship with Greek tragedy: in particular, through its preoccupation with generational tensions along with issues of knowledge...

... of connection between texts centuries, even millennia apart, from Greek tragedy and Latin epic, through the plays of Shakespeare and the Victorian novel, to contemporary film, fiction and poetry. Each chapter takes a different uncanny motif as its focus: doubles, ruins, reanimation, ghosts and journeys...

...This chapter focuses on the antecedents to the absurd. It first traces the antecedents of the absurd to the older stages of Greek theatre, and reveals that the absurd can be found in Greek tragedy, which returned to the European consciousness during the Italian Renaissance. The chapter then studies...