Euripides' revolution under cover : an essay / Pietro Pucci.

Author/creator Pucci, Pietro author.
Format Electronic
PublicationIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
Description1 online resource (vi, 235 pages).
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Other title Euripides's revolution under cover
SeriesCornell studies in classical philology
Cornell studies in classical philology. ^A179994
Contents Introduction : Euripides's poetic game and law of composition -- Anthropomorphism -- The protection of the self and the role of Sophia -- Some connotations of Sophia -- Polyneikes' truth -- Hecuba's rhetoric -- Eros in Euripides's poetics : sex as the cause of the Trojan War -- The lewd gaze of the eye -- The power of love : who is Aphrodite? -- Phaedra -- Hermione : the Andromache -- Female victims of war : The Troades -- Survival in poetry -- Figures of metalepsis : the invention of literature -- The failure of politics in Euripides's poetics : politics in Suppliant women -- Political philosophy : a universal program of peace and progress -- How to deliberate a war -- Democracy and monarchy -- The battle -- The rescue of the corpses -- Return to arms -- The polis's loss of control and authority -- The Bacchants' gospel and the Greek city -- Pentheus and Tiresias -- Dionysus' revenge : first round -- Revenge prepares its murderous weapons -- Initiation and sacrifice -- Victory and defeat -- Euripides's poetry.
Summary This work explores Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, this book goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
Source of descriptionPrint version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Pucci, Pietro. Euripides's revolution under cover. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016 9781501700613
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/formElectronic books.
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781501704055 (electronic bk.)
ISBN1501704052 (electronic bk.)
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