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.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Tzanetou, Angeliki
Format: Publication officielle Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Ashley and Peter Larkin series in Greek and Roman culture.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Description
Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780292737174
0292737173

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