Euripides' Revolution under Cover : : An Essay / / Pietro Pucci.
In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, Pucci goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through careful...
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cornell Studies in Classical Philology ;
65 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Euripides's Poetic Game and Law of Composition
- 2. Anthropomorphism
- 3. The Protection of the Self and the Role of Sophia
- 4. Some Connotations of Sophia
- 5. Polyneices's Truth
- 6. Hecuba's Rhetoric
- 7. Eros in Euripides's Poetics: Sex as the Cause of the Trojan War
- 8. The Lewd Gaze of the Eye
- 9. The Power of Love: Who Is Aphrodite?
- 10. Phaedra
- 11. Hermione: The Andromache
- 12. Female Victims of War: The Troades
- 13. The Survival in Poetry
- 14. Figures of Metalepsis: The Invention of "Literature"
- 15. The Failure of Politics in Euripides's Poetics: Politics in the Suppliant Women
- 16. Political Philosophy: A Universal Program of Peace and Progress
- 17. How to Deliberate a War
- 18. Democracy and Monarchy
- 19. The Battle
- 20. The Rescue of the Corpses
- 21. Return to Arms
- 22. The Polis's Loss of Control and Authority
- 23. The Bacchants' Gospel and the Greek City
- 24. Pentheus and Teiresias
- 25. Dionysus's Revenge: First Round
- 26. Revenge Prepares Its Murderous Weapon
- 27. Initiation and Sacrifice
- 28. Victory and Defeat
- 29. Euripides's Poetry
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Index Locorum