Studies in Euripides' Orestes /
This work challenges recent critical assessments that emphasize the allegedly subversive elements in Euripides' play. The Orestes is found to present a curious mélange of early and late Euripidean features, resulting in a drama where the tragic potential of Orestes' predicament becomes los...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; New York :
E.J. Brill,
1994.
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Mnemosyne, Supplements
128.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.
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Call Number: PA3973.O73 P67 1994
| Summary: | This work challenges recent critical assessments that emphasize the allegedly subversive elements in Euripides' play. The Orestes is found to present a curious mélange of early and late Euripidean features, resulting in a drama where the tragic potential of Orestes' predicament becomes lost amid the moral, political and situational chaos that dominates the late Euripidean stage. Throughout, emphasis is placed on reading the Orestes in light of Greek stage conventions and the poet's own practice. Of particular interest are: an original examination, in light of Greek rhetorical practice, of Orestes' agon with Tyndareus; an analysis of the Phrygian's monody as a cunning hybrid of Timothean nome and traditional messenger speech; and a re-evaluation of the play's troubling deus ex machina. |
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| Item Description: | Rev. version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toronto, 1990. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 364 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-357) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004329249 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8958 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |