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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Oresteia"”.
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Aeschylean Drama and the History of Rhetoric
… translated “persuasion”) throughout the <em>Oresteia</em>, first performed in 458 BCE. In this drama, Aeschylus specifically displays and develops πειθώ as a theme, a goddess, a central principle of action, and an important concept for his audience to consider. By tracing connections between …
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Theatre of community: healing functions of theatre in society
… 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 core of the thesis is that theatre …
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Trilogy in the Making
… 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 Jess-Cooke’s Film …
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The house of Atreus in ancient Greece
… wrote.</p><p>The 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 …
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A Sense of the Tragic
… of classical revenge tragedies such as The Oresteia and pre-modern English revenge tragedies such as The Spanish Tragedy and Hamlet. The narrative begins with a scene atop the World Trade Center the night before the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001 and continues into the so-called 'War on …
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Constellations of suffering: historical trauma in the theatrical adaptation of Greek tragedy
… framework of these ancient tales (Oedipus, The Oresteia, and Antigone) to represent three specific instances of historical trauma: the United States’ history of slavery, South Africa’s experience of apartheid, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the resulting War on Terror. While each of the …
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Anthropogony, Myth and Gender: Athenian Autochthony as a Case Study
… 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 human world. …
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The architectural correspondence of space and speech in tragedy
… the study of certain examples from the trilogy Oresteia. Those examples, dealt within the last part of the fourth chapter gave us the opportunity to validate our approach and enrich our conclusions concerning the issues which this thesis intended to clarify