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A Companion to Aeschylus

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ISBN/EAN: 9781119072331
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 640 S., 4.68 MB
Auflage: 1. Auflage 2023
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A COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS

InA Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examinationthe first comprehensive one in Englishof the works of the earliest surviving Greek tragedian. This book explores Aeschylean drama, and its theatrical, historical, philosophical, religious, and socio-political contexts, as well as the receptions and influence of Aeschylus from antiquity to the present day.

This companion offers readers thorough examinations of Aeschylus as a product of his time, including his place in the early years of the Athenian democracy and his immediate and ongoing impact on tragedy. It also provides comprehensive explorations of all the surviving plays, including Prometheus Bound, which many scholars have concluded is not by Aeschylus.

A Companion to Aeschylus is an ideal resource for students encountering the work of Aeschylus for the first time as well as more advanced scholars seeking incisive treatment of his individual works, their cultural context and their enduring significance. Written in an accessible format, with the Greek translated into English and technical terminology avoided as much as possible, the book belongs in the library of anyone looking for a fresh and authoritative account of works of continuing interest and importance to readers and theatre-goers alike.

Autorenportrait

Jacques A. Bromberg is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published essays on Greek literature, classical receptions in Latin America, global studies and historical globalization, and the history and philosophy of sport.

Peter Burian is Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies at Duke University. He has published essays on and translations of ancient Greek texts and the reception of classical culture in the modern world.

Inhalt

List of Figures xii

Preface and Acknowledgements xiii

Notes on Contributors xiv

Introduction: Aeschylus and His Place in History 1Peter Burian

Part I Aeschylus in His Time 13

1 Democracy's Age of Bronze: Aeschylus's Plays and Athenian History, 508/7454 bce 15Robert W. Wallace

2 Aeschylus, Lyric and Epic 27P. J. Finglass

3 Tragedy before Aeschylus 40P. J. Finglass

4 Aeschylean Drama and Intellectual History 47Jacques A. Bromberg

5 Aeschylus in Sicily between Tyranny and Democracy 61Malcolm Bell, III

Part II Aeschylus as Playwright 75

6 Persians 77A. F. Garvie

7 Seven against Thebes 88Isabelle Torrance

8 Fear of Foreign Women in Aeschylus'sSuppliants99Rebecca Futo Kennedy

9 Disorder, Resolution and Language: TheOresteia114David H. Porter

10Eumenides: Justice, Gender, the Gods and the City 130Peter Burian

11 Intertheatricality and Narrative Structure in theElectraPlays 145Kirk Ormand

12Prometheus Bound: The Principle of Hope 158I. A. Ruffell

13 Slices from Aeschylus's Feast: The Fragmentary Works 171Anthony Podlecki

14 Aeschylean Satyr Drama 185Carl Shaw

15 The Tetralogy 201Alan H. Sommerstein

16 Visualising the Stage 214A. C. Duncan

17 The Choruses of Aeschylus 230Eva Stehle

18 Music, Dance and Metre in Aeschylean Tragedy 242Naomi Weiss

19 Aeschylus: Language and Style 254R. B. Rutherford

20 The Long View in Aeschylus: Intergenerational Myth-Making through the "Other" 267Arum Park

Part III Aeschylus and Greek Society 281

21 Aeschylus and Subversion of Ritual 283Richard Seaford

22 Ghosts, Demons and Gods: Supernatural Challenges 295Amit Shilo

23 Inscribing Justice in Aeschylean Drama 310Sarah Nooter

24 Race in Aeschylus'sSuppliant WomenandPersians323Sarah Derbew

25 Aeschylus'sPersiansand the "Just War" 334Sydnor Roy

26 Aeschylus and History 346Emily Baragwanath

27 Aeschylus and Athenian Law 361F. S. Naiden

28 Aeschylus's Athens between Hegemony and Empire 373David Rosenbloom

Part IV The Influence of Aeschylus 389

29 Critical Approaches to Aeschylus, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present 391Mark Griffith

30 The Reception of Aeschylus in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries 412C. W. Marshall

31 The Transmission of Aeschylus: The Miracle of Survival 425Marsh McCall

32 The Bow of Ulysses: Aeschylus and his Translators 437Deborah H. Roberts

33 Variations on a Theme: Prometheus 455Theodore Ziolkowski

34 Myth, History and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of theOresteia467Adam Lecznar

35 Three Landmarks in the Reception of theOresteiain Twentieth-Century Drama 479Vayos Liapis

36Oresteiaon Stage: Koun, Stein, Hall and Mnouchkine 491Hallie Rebecca Marshall

37 Transforming Aeschylus on the Modern Stage 505Helene P. Foley

38 Applied Aeschylus 518Peter Meineck

39 Teaching theOresteiaas a Work for the Theatre 533Robin Mitchell-Boyask

Epilogue 544Jacques A. Bromberg

Index 558

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