Motif of Io in Aeschylus' Suppliants / / Robert Duff Murray.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Murray, Robert Duff,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1958
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2274
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (118 p.)

Few Greek tragedies confront the critic with more varied difficulties than the Suppliants, and perhaps no other tragedy has been the subject of such diverse interpretation. In this book Professor Murray demonstrates that the web of imagery woven around Io, the ancestress of the Danaids, is a vitally important vehicle of meaning, indispensable to a correct interpretation of the trilogy.Originally published in 1958.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. The Imagery of the Suppliants -- III. The Aeschylean Io -- IV. The Meaning of the Motif of Io -- V. Hypermnestra and the Themes of the Trilogy -- Appendix A: The Chronology of the Suppliants and the Prometheus Bound -- Appendix B: Line 8 and the Motivation of the Danaids -- Bibliography