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Plague and the Athenian imagination : drama, history, and the cult of Asclepius /
The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this 2007 book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The great plague of Athens that began in 430 BCE had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and on the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this 2007 book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant relationship between drama and the development of the cult of the healing god Asclepius in the next decade, during a period of war and increasing civic strife. The Athenian decision to locate their temple for Asclepius adjacent to the Theater of Dionysus arose from deeper associations between drama, healing and the polis that were engaged actively by the crisis of the plague. The book also considers the representation of the plague in Thucydides' History as well as the metaphors generated by that representation which recur later in the same work. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511378041 9780511378935 0511378939 9780511378041 9786611243470 661124347X 9780511482304 0511482302 1107181194 9781107181199 1281243477 9781281243478 0511377169 9780511377167 0511376227 9780511376221 0511374690 9780511374692 |