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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mitchell-Boyask, Robin, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Temas:
Aesculapius > (Roman deity)
Aesculapius (Roman deity) > Cult.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Greek drama (Tragedy) > Themes, motives > History.
Literature and society > Greece > Athens > History.
Drama > Social aspects > Greece > Athens > History.
Plague in literature.
Tragédie grecque > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Grèce > Athènes > Histoire.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > Aspect social > Grèce > Athènes > Histoire.
Peste dans la littérature.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Cults.
Drama > Social aspects.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Greek drama (Tragedy) > Themes, motives.
Literature and society.
Greece, Ancient
Greece > Athens.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Death, myth and drama before the plague
  • Chapter 3 Materials i: The language of disease in tragedy
  • The rarity of loimos in tragedy
  • The use of nosos in tragedy
  • Aeschylus and nosos
  • Nosos in sophocles and euripides
  • Aristophanic comedy and the plague
  • Medicine, politics and tragic drama
  • Chapter 4 Plague, cult and drama: Euripides' Hippolytus
  • Chapter 5 Oedipus and the plague
  • Chapter 6 The Trachiniae and the plague
  • Dating problems
  • A parody of heracles in the clouds
  • Heracles as plague victim
  • The plague and the apotheosis of heracles
  • Music, closure and cult
  • Sophocles, heracles and athenian imperialism
  • Chapter 7 Materials ii: The cult of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus
  • Asclepius and the god of theater
  • The uniqueness of the athenian asklepieion
  • Asklepieion-theater configurations in other poleis
  • Chapter 8 Disease and stasis in Euripidean drama: Tragic pharmacology on the south slope of the Acropolis
  • Sickness and stasis in euripides' heracles
  • Nosological imagery in euripidean drama
  • Nosos in the phoenissae
  • Pharmakon sôtr̊ias
  • Heracles ii: text and context
  • Tragic drama, scapegoating and ostracism
  • Chapter 9 The Athenian Asklepieion and the end of the Philoctetes
  • Lemnos and athens
  • Sophocles' philoctetes and athenian cults
  • Asclepius and asklepieion: remapping the action of the philoctetes
  • Poetry and performance
  • Sophocles' philoctetes and the athens of 409 bce
  • Epilogue: philoctetes, freedom and the threat of tyranny in 410
  • Chapter 10 Conclusions and afterthoughts
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Last Page.

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