The politics of youth in Greek tragedy : gangs of Athens /

This bold new set of interpretations of tragedy offers innovative analyses of the dynamic between politics and youth in the ancient world. By exploring how tragedy responded to the fluctuating attitudes to young people at a highly turbulent time in the history of Athens, Shipton sheds new light on a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Shipton, Matthew (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Sujets:
Euripides > Criticism and interpretation.
Sophocles > Criticism and interpretation.
Aeschylus > Criticism and interpretation.
Aeschylus
Euripides
Sophocles
Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.
Youth in literature.
Politics in literature.
Tragédie grecque > Histoire et critique.
Jeunesse dans la littérature.
Classical texts.
Violence in society.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
DRAMA > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Politics in literature
Youth in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Youth in tragedy's literary forebears and contemporaries
  • Intergenerational conflict in the Aeschylean Prometheus
  • The politics of age and integration in Sophocles' Antigone
  • The cult of the young warrior in Euripides' Heraclidae
  • Youth and limitations on personal authority in Sophocles' Philoctetes
  • Friendship and generational loyalty in Euripides' Orestes
  • Euripides' Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis: a gap in the generations and political failure.

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