City of suppliants : tragedy and the Athenian empire /

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With close readings of suppliant dramas by each of the major playwrights, this book explores how Greek tragedy used tales of foreign supplicants to promote, question, and negotiate the imperial ideology of Athens as a benevolent and moral ruling city.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tzanetou, Angeliki
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture.
Temas:
Aeschylus. > Eumenides.
Euripides. > Children of Heracles.
Sophocles. > Oedipus at Colonus.
Children of Heracles (Euripides)
Eumenides (Aeschylus)
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Tragédie grecque > Histoire et critique.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aeschylus' Eumenides : hegemony and justice
  • Hegemony and empire : presumed origins
  • Euripides' Children of heracles : "helping the weak and punishing the strong"
  • Hegemony in crisis : Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus.

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