Aeschylus's Suppliant Women : The Tragedy of Immigration /

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This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece in starkly contemporary terms, emphasizing the encounter betwe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bakewell, Geoffrey W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Aeschylus. > Suppliants > Criticism and interpretation.
Suppliants (Aeschylus)
Metics.
Emigration and immigration.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Meteques.
Greece > Athens.
Athens (Greece) > Emigration and immigration.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece in starkly contemporary terms, emphasizing the encounter between newcomers and natives. Some scholars read the play as modeling successful social integration, but here, the author argues that the play demonstrates, above all, the difficulties and dangers noncitizens brought to the polis.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (226 pages).
ISBN:9780299291730

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