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Lyric Iambic Metres in Aeschylus
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Contributions to the Study of the Thoman Recension of Aeschylus
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Aeschylean Drama and the History of Rhetoric
… dissertation demonstrates how the playwright Aeschylus contributes to the development of ancient Greek rhetoric through his use and display of πειθώ (often translated “persuasion”) throughout the <em>Oresteia</em>, first performed in 458 BCE. In this drama, Aeschylus specifically displays and …
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Certain evidences of classical Greek influence on Shelley
… with particular emphasis upon the influences of Aeschylus and Plato.</p>
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L'intertextualité comme procédé dramaturgique dans Hécube et Les Troyennes d'Euripide
… considered here are the Homeric epics and Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. After a presentation of the problems raised by the use of the notion of “intertextuality” in the field of ancient Greek literature, and more specifically Greek theatre, the two dramas are each studied in depth. Chapters I to IV …
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The Power of Space: The Acropolis, the Theatre of Dionysos, and Tragedy in the 5th Century BCE
… within the context of their first performances: Aeschylus' Persians, Aeschylus' Eumenides, and Euripides' Ion. These case studies reveal the semiotic influence of the Acropolis on tragic performances that refer to its presence within the Theatre of Dionysos. This sampling of plays that span the …
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Ἕρκος Ἀθηναίων: The Ajax Myth, the Trojan War, and Civic Ideology in Fifth-Century Athens
… War to parallel the Persian War. I then examine Aeschylus’ Persians and argue that he uses the Iliadic Ajax in order to epicize Athens’ role in the battle of Salamis. Finally, I address Sophocles’ Ajax as a vehicle to examine the shift in Athens’ identity from Greek defender in the Persian …
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Orestes and Redemption in Two Different Ages
… 20th-century playwrights. The Orestes plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were contrasted with the similar plays of Hofmannstahl, Jeffers, O'Neill, Giraudoux, Eliot, and Sartre. The Greek tragedians appear to terminate Orestes' retribution for inherited evil and a just crime by an …
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Trilogy in the Making
… first extant trilogy is almost 2500 years old: Aeschylus’ Oresteia, first performed in Athens 458 BCE. Recent explorations in multiplicities or serialities include Stephen Henderson’s The Hollywood Sequel (2014), Perkins and Verevis’ edited collection Film Trilogies (2012) and Carolyn …
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The house of Atreus in ancient Greece
… plays considered were the Oresteia, a trilogy by Aeschylus first presented about 458 B.C.; Electra by Sophocles; probably presented first sometime before 413 B.C.; and Electra by Euripides, first presented in 413 B.C. SInce the purpose of the study was to compare ideas and points of view expressed …
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Theatre of community: healing functions of theatre in society
… psychological aspects of ancient Greek society. Aeschylus' dramatic trilogy The Oresteia is examined to illuminate the cultural views of a society that valued the plays. Aristophanes' Peace shows the emotional state of the Athenian society nearly a century after the fifty-year Persian War. The …
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The concept of Aidos in Greek literature from Homer to 404 BC
… changes in the society outside the plays. In Aeschylus, the operation of the concept in the above-mentioned categories is, briefly, surveyed, but the bulk of the chapter is concerned with its role in the psychology of characters faced with an acutely difficult choice: here the inhibitory force …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… with both sexes. Chapter 3 shows how Wilde uses Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in his fairy tales and plays to represent unhappy heterosexual relations in contradistinction to a positively portrayed Platonic pedagogical pederasty—a juxtaposition that is reflected in Wilde’s life as well as his work. …
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
… and Polynices and Eteocles’ conflict include Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, and Euripides’ Phoenissae and Suppliant Women. I identify various passages throughout the epic that parallel scenes from these tragedies, not only …
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A Hermeneutic Exploration of the Literature of Technology: Prometheus Bound, Frankenstein and Battlestar Galactica
… a series of three exceptional artistic works: Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, and Ronald Moore's Battlestar Galactica. Furthermore, in order to broaden the exploration, the present work takes as a forestructure the late work of philosopher Martin Heidegger, the …
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Anthropogony, Myth and Gender: Athenian Autochthony as a Case Study
… in tragedy and philosophy. In Chapter 3, Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Euripides Ion are examined. These two tragedies, by revising the traditional autochthony myths into new narratives, inquire into the feasibility of the mythic imagination of autochthony establishing social order in the real …
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Playing with fire : Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the rewriting of the Prometheus myth
… concentrating on the versions by Hesjod, Aeschylus and Ovid, and considers the implications of its appropriation and revision by women writers. Chapters Two and Three analyse the way in which two nineteenth century women, Mary Shelley and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, rewrote the myth. …
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Der Troische Krieg in der nachhomerischen Literatur bis zum 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird untersucht, wie nachhomerische Autoren, die Lyriker Alkaios, Sappho und Stesichoros, die Geschichtsschreiber Herodot und Thukydides, und die Tragiker Aischylos, Sophokles und Euripides, den Troischen Krieg als mythische Vergangenheit behandeln. Der spezifische …
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Embracing Evil: The Threat and Allure of the Female in Greek Poetry
Modern scholars have often noted the harsh depictions of women in Greek literature and account for them as simply part of the tradition of Greek misogyny' that exists throughout ancient Greek texts from the archaic period to classical times. This project argues that these sentiments, which have so …
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