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Performing oaths in classical Greek drama /
"Oaths were ubiquitous rituals in ancient Athenian legal, commercial, civic and international spheres. Their importance is reflected by the fact that much of surviving Greek drama features a formal oath sworn before the audience. This is the first comprehensive study of that phenomenon. The boo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; PERFORMING OATHS IN CLASSICAL GREEK DRAMA; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; A note on abbreviations; Introduction; WHAT IS AN OATH?; 1) The preface (an invitation or offer to swear an oath); 2) The invocation; 3) A verb or expression of swearing; 4) The body of the oath; 5) The curse; 6) Gestures, sacrifices and sanctifying features; OATHS AND DRAMATIC PLOTS; HOMER; HOMERIC HYMNS AND ARCHAIC POETRY; HERODOTUS; CHAPTER 1 From curses to blessings: horkos in the Oresteia; OATHS OF REVENGE; HORKOS AND GENDER; QUESTIONING HORKOS; THE OATH IN ATHENS.
- THE ERINYES: FROM CURSES TO BLESSINGSTHE ARGIVE OATH OF ALLIANCE; CHAPTER 2 Speaking like a man: oaths in Sophocles' Trachiniae and Philoctetes; OATHS AND RITUAL FRIENDSHIP: A DIVINE PARADIGM; TELEMACHUS; TRACHINIAE; PHILOCTETES; A CIVIC PARADIGM?; CHAPTER 3 Horkos in the polis: Athens, Thebes and Sophocles; ANTIGONE: NOMOS AND HORKOS; OEDIPUS, A MAN OF HIS WORD; OEDIPUS AT COLONUS: WORDS OF POWER; CHAPTER 4 Perjury and other perversions: Euripides' Phoenissae, Orestes and Cyclops; NOBILITY AND EUORKIA; THE GENEALOGY OF LANGUAGE IN PHOENISSAE; OENOMAUS AND THE PERJURY OF PELOPS.
- SUBVERTING THE PARADIGM: THE PHRYGIAN'S OATH IN ORESTESPERJURY AND THE IMPERFECT BODY: CYCLOPS; CHAPTER 5 Twisted justice in Aristophanes' Clouds; CHAPTER 6 Women and oaths in Euripides; OATHS, FAMILY CURSES AND TRAGIC PLOTS; SWEARING TO MEDEA; OATHS OF SILENCE IN HIPPOLYTUS; IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS: BODY, OATH AND TEXT; CHAPTER 7 How to do things with Euripides: Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae; BECOMING A WOMAN; EURIPIDES' OATH; OATHS AND INTERTEXTS; INTERSEXED INTERTEXTS; TRAGIC INTERTEXTS; A DEMETRIAN/DIONYSIAN HYBRID; A PARODIC TRILOGY?; EURIPIDES' CONTRACT WITH THE WOMEN.
- CHAPTER 8 Swearing off sex: the women's oath in Aristophanes' LysistrataMATTER AND FORM; THE OATH SACRIFICE; THE WOMEN'S HORKOS; FIRE AND WATER; LYSISTRATA TAKES CONTROL; RECONCILIATION; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index locorum; General Index.