Converging truths : Euripides' Ion and the Athenian quest for self-definition /

Converging truths : Euripides' Ion and the Athenian quest for self-definition /

This book is a study of the Ion of Euripides. Produced in a period of intense political crisis at Athens in 412 BC, this play went to the heart of Athenian self-perception but also highlighted the violent divine grace of Apollo, the intense emotional suffering of Kreousa, and Ion's insistent se...

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Main Author: Zacharia, Katerina, 1967-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 242.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Euripides. > Ion.
Ion > (Mythological character) > In literature.
Apollo > (Deity) > In literature.
Apollo > (Deity)
Ion > (Mythological character)
Ion (Euripides)
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Nativism in literature.
Self in literature.
Literature.
Athens (Greece) > In literature.
Greece > Athens.

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Call Number: PA3973.I6 Z33 2003

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • FROM DELPHI TO ATHENS
  • ATHENIAN FOUNDATION MYTHS AND THE ION; IONIANISM AND AUTOCHTHONY
  • APOLLO IN THE ION
  • THE ION IN THE EURIPIDEAN CORPUS
  • EPILOGUE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • GENERAL INDEX
  • INDEX OF ION PASSAGES
  • SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE /
  • H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings.