Wisdom and folly in Euripides / / edited by Poulheria Kyriakou and Antonios Rengakos.

"The volume throws fresh light on a major polarity in Euripidean drama, including its roots in the tradition and its reception in vase-painting and literature. Virtually all Euripidean characters are subject to folly and claim some measure of wisdom. Leading international scholars discuss the p...

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Superior document:Trends in classics--supplementary volumes, volume 31
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2016]
2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 31.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 pages) :; illustrations.
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505 0 |a Part I: General. Luigi Battezzato: Euripides the antiquarian -- Martin Hose: Euripides-poet of irritations -- G.O. Hutchinson: Gods wise and foolish: Euripides and greek literature from Homer to Plutarch -- Maria Serena Mirto: "Rightly does Aphrodite's name begin with aphrosune": Gods and men in wisdom and folly -- Ruth Scodel: Wisdom from slaves -- Part II: Individual plays. Laura McClure: Hearth and home in Euripides' Alcestis -- John Gibert: The wisdom of Jason -- Justina Gregory: The education of Hippolytus -- Poulheria Kyriakou: Wisdom, nobility, and families in Andromache -- Katerina Synodinou: Wisdom through experience: Theseus and Adrastus in Euripides' Suppliant Women -- Andrea Rodighiero: "Sail with your fortune": wisdom and defeat in Euripides' Trojan Women -- Matthew Wright: The significance of numbers in Trojan Women -- Andreas Markantonatos: The Delphic school of government: Apollonian wisdom and Athenian folly in Euripides' Ion -- David Konstan: Did Orestes have a conscience? another look at Sunesis in Euripides' Orestes -- Anna Lamari: Madness narrative in Euripides' Bacchae -- Seth L. Schein: The language of wisdom in Sophokles' Philoktetes and Euripides' Bacchae -- Bernd Seidensticker: The figure of Teiresias in Euripides' Bacchae -- Davide Susanetti: The Bacchae: manipulation and destruction -- P. J. Finglass: Mistaken identity in Euripides' Ino -- Part III: Reception. David Sansone: Whatever happened to Euripides' Lekythion (Frogs 1198-1247)? -- Thalia Papadopoulou: Euripidean frenzy goes to Rome: the case of Roman comedy and novel -- Barbara Goff: The leopard-skin of Heracles: traditional wisdom and untraditional madness in a Ghanaian Alcestis -- Michalis Tiverios: New evidence for Euripides' (?) Alkmene: another look at a South Italian vase-painting -- List of contributors -- Publications by Daniel Iakov. 
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