Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature : : Athenian Dialogues I /

Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature : : Athenian Dialogues I / / ed. by Efi Papadodima.

The volume offers new insights into the intricate theme of silence in Greek literature, especially drama. Even though the topic has received respectable attention in recent years, it still lends itself to further inquiry, which embraces silence's very essence and boundaries; its applications an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Bowie, Ewen,
Gregory, Justina,
Lardinois, André,
Lateiner, Donald,
McClure, Laura,
Mills, Sophie,
Montiglio, Silvia,
Papadodima, Efi,
Rosenbloom, David,
Seaford, Richard,
Synodinou, Katerina,
Tatsi, Anna,
HerausgeberIn:
Papadodima, Efi,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 100
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 318 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Faces of Silence in Ancient Greek Literature
  • The Sound of Silence: Performing Silence in Greek Epic and Lyric Poetry
  • Silence and Concealment in Pindar
  • Silence in Chariton, Xenophon, Achilles Tatius and Longus
  • The Silences of Chariclea in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica: From Cunning to Shame
  • Silences in Aristophanes’ Dramas
  • The Rhetoric and Theatrics of the Unspeakable in Tragedy
  • The Power of Logos and the Power of Silence
  • The Unspeakable and the Unspoken
  • Silence and Motivation in Sophocles’ Ajax
  • Silence and Song in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Euripides’ Ion
  • Women’s Silence and Its Transcendence in Greek Tragedy
  • The Novelty of Tragic Silence
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of Terms
  • Index of Sources

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