Brill's companion to the reception of Aeschylus /

Brill's companion to the reception of Aeschylus /

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus' tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus' reception be...

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Other Authors: Kennedy, Rebecca Futo, 1974-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 11.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online III, ISBN: 9789004249301.

Subjects:

Aeschylus > Criticism and interpretation.
Aeschylus > Appreciation.
Aeschylus > Influence.

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Call Number: PA3849

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus /
  • Rebecca Futo Kennedy
  • The Reception of Aeschylus in Sicily /
  • David G. Smith
  • The Comedians' Aeschylus /
  • David Rosenbloom
  • Aristotle's Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without Malice /
  • Dana LaCourse Munteanu
  • Aeschylus in the Hellenistic Period /
  • Sebastiana Nervegna
  • Aeschylus in the Roman Empire /
  • George W. M. Harrison
  • Aeschylus in Byzantium /
  • Christos Simelidis
  • Aeschylus and Opera /
  • Michael Ewans
  • Aeschylus in Germany /
  • Theodore Ziolkowski
  • Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, "The Sick Man of Europe" /
  • Gonda Van Steen
  • Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: Prometheus' Gifts to Humankind /
  • Fabien Desset
  • Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley /
  • Ana González-Rivas Fernández
  • An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity Fair /
  • Barbara Witucki
  • Form and Money in Wagner's Ring and Aeschylean Tragedy /
  • Richard Seaford
  • Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge /
  • Patrick J. Murphy and Fredrick Porcheddu
  • The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians? /
  • Stratos E. Constantinidis
  • Persians On French Television: An Opera-Oratorio Echoing the Algerian War /
  • Gabriel Sevilla
  • Aeschylus' Oresteia on British Television /
  • Amanda Wrigley
  • Orestes On Trial in Africa: Pasolini's Appunti per un' Orestiade Africana and Sissako's Bamako /
  • Tom Hawkins
  • Reception of the Plays of Aeschylus in South Africa /
  • Kevin J. Wetmore
  • In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings in Latin America /
  • Jacques A. Bromberg
  • Avatars of Aeschylus: O'Neill to Herzog/Golder /
  • Marianne McDonald
  • The Overlooked οἰκονομία of Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining /
  • Geoffrey Bakewell
  • "Now Harkonnen Shall Kill Harkonnen": Aeschylus, Dynastic Violence, and Twofold Tragedies in Frank Herbert's Dune /
  • Brett M. Rogers
  • "Save Our City": The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought /
  • Arlene W. Saxonhouse
  • Political Theory in Aeschylean Drama: Ancient Themes and their Contemporary Reception /
  • Larissa Atkison and Ryan K. Balot
  • Index.