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Wisdom and folly in Euripides /

"The volume throws fresh light on a major polarity in Euripidean drama, including its roots in the tradition and its reception in vase-painting and literature. Virtually all Euripidean characters are subject to folly and claim some measure of wisdom. Leading international scholars discuss the p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kyriakou, Poulheria (Editor ), Rengakos, Antonios (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2016]
Colección:Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 31.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: General. Luigi Battezzato: Euripides the antiquarian
  • Martin Hose: Euripides-poet of irritations
  • G.O. Hutchinson: Gods wise and foolish: Euripides and greek literature from Homer to Plutarch
  • Maria Serena Mirto: "Rightly does Aphrodite's name begin with aphrosune": Gods and men in wisdom and folly
  • Ruth Scodel: Wisdom from slaves
  • Part II: Individual plays. Laura McClure: Hearth and home in Euripides' Alcestis
  • John Gibert: The wisdom of Jason
  • Justina Gregory: The education of Hippolytus
  • Poulheria Kyriakou: Wisdom, nobility, and families in Andromache
  • Katerina Synodinou: Wisdom through experience: Theseus and Adrastus in Euripides' Suppliant Women
  • Andrea Rodighiero: "Sail with your fortune": wisdom and defeat in Euripides' Trojan Women
  • Matthew Wright: The significance of numbers in Trojan Women
  • Andreas Markantonatos: The Delphic school of government: Apollonian wisdom and Athenian folly in Euripides' Ion
  • David Konstan: Did Orestes have a conscience? another look at Sunesis in Euripides' Orestes
  • Anna Lamari: Madness narrative in Euripides' Bacchae
  • Seth L. Schein: The language of wisdom in Sophokles' Philoktetes and Euripides' Bacchae
  • Bernd Seidensticker: The figure of Teiresias in Euripides' Bacchae
  • Davide Susanetti: The Bacchae: manipulation and destruction
  • P.J. Finglass: Mistaken identity in Euripides' Ino
  • Part III: Reception. David Sansone: Whatever happened to Euripides' Lekythion (Frogs 1198-1247)?
  • Thalia Papadopoulou: Euripidean frenzy goes to Rome: the case of Roman comedy and novel
  • Barbara Goff: The leopard-skin of Heracles: traditional wisdom and untraditional madness in a Ghanaian Alcestis
  • Michalis Tiverios: New evidence for Euripides' Alkmene: another look at a South Italian vase-painting
  • List of contributors
  • Publications by Daniel Iakov.