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Aeschylus.
The ""Eumenides"", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the ""Oresteia"", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Colección: | Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The ""Eumenides"", the concluding drama in Aeschylus' sole surviving trilogy, the ""Oresteia"", is not only one of the most admired Greek tragedies, but also one of the most controversial and contested, both to specialist scholars and public intellectuals. It stands at the crux of the controversies over the relationship between the fledgling democracy of Athens and the dramas it produced during the City Dionysia, and over the representation of women in the theatre and their implied status in Athenian society. The ""Eumenides"" enacts the trial of Agamemnon's son Orestes, who had been ordered u. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (158 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9781472519634 1472519639 |