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Pythian eleven
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ISBN: 9780521884815 0521884810 9780511481406 9780521289900 0511481403 9780511379307 0511379307 1107186382 9781107186385 1281243841 9781281243843 9786611243845 6611243844 0511378432 9780511378430 0511376618 9780511376610 0511375085 9780511375088 051137755X 0521289904 Year: 2007 Volume: 45 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Pindar's Pythian Eleven is a miniature masterpiece: a poem praising a young athlete which presents a vivid and important account of the Agamemnon legend. Yet it contains so many difficulties (of text, metre, dating and interpretation) that even Wilamowitz regarded it as one of Pindar's most obscure poems. This 2007 edition (the first full-scale treatment that the poem had ever received) provides answers to the problems that have prevented proper appreciation of the work. In addition to the full introduction and commentary, the book also has a text based on re-examination of the manuscripts, detailed metrical discussion, and a translation.

Aeschyli Agamemnon
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ISBN: 9783598710155 3598710151 3111812219 3110953870 9783110953879 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berolini Novi Eboraci

L’Agamemnon d’Eschyle : Commentaire des dialogues
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ISBN: 2859396276 2859396284 2859396292 2757422049 9782859396299 9782859396275 9782859396282 Year: 2020 Volume: 18 Publisher: Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion,

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Ce livre donne une analyse détaillée de l’ensemble des scènes dialoguées de l’Agamemnon d’Eschyle, pièce qui ouvre la trilogie de l’Orestie (458 avant J.-C.). Il fait suite à l’ouvrage publié par Jean Bollack et Pierre Judet de La Combe, L’Agamemnon d’Eschyle. Le texte et ses interprétations, qui traitait des parties chorales de cette œuvre. La pièce se trouve ainsi commentée dans sa totalité. La perspective choisie est multiple : l’examen précis de la lettre du texte (qui débouche sur de très nombreuses interprétations nouvelles) s’accompagne d’une réflexion suivie sur la nature de la tragédie, sur ses innovations, sa langue, la manière dont elle construit le discours de ses personnages et sur l’histoire des lectures de ce drame depuis l’Antiquité. L’essai introductif fait le point sur les conflits d’interprétation que la tragédie a suscités chez les Modernes, et sur les questions générales qui se posent à l’interprète d’un tel texte : pertinence, ou non, du concept de tragique pour lire une tragédie ancienne, définition de ce qu’est un personnage dramatique, relation d’une telle œuvre avec ce que l’on sait de la langue, du droit, du mythe, de la poésie au ve siècle avant J.-C. à Athènes. La philologie critique affirme ainsi ses liens avec la philosophie, l’histoire et la sociologie. L’édition critique du texte et sa traduction feront l’objet d’un autre volume.

Agamemnon in performance 458 BC to AD 2004
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ISBN: 1280756632 0191514691 142942172X 9781429421720 9780191514692 9781280756634 9786610756636 6610756635 0199263515 9780199263516 019160836X 1383040540 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This interdisciplinary, multi-author volume is devoted to the performance reception of Aeschylus's 'Agamemnon', the first play in a trilogy. The eighteen essays trace the story of the impact of this seminal play, from its original performance in Athens, through ancient Rome and the European Renaissance until the present day.

Ransom, revenge, and heroic identity in the Iliad
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ISBN: 1107124085 0521032784 0511497792 0511044232 0511176805 0511329814 1280419172 0511157703 0511020392 9780511020391 9780511044236 9780511497797 9781280419171 9786610419173 6610419175 9780521032780 9780511176807 9780511329814 9780511157707 9781107124080 0521806607 9780521806602 9780521032780 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From beginning to end of the Iliad, Agamemnon and Achilleus are locked in a high-stakes struggle for dominance based on their efforts to impose competing definitions of loss incurred and the nature of compensation thereby owed. This typology of scenes involving apoina, or 'ransom' and poine, or 'revenge' is the basis of Donna Wilson's detailed anthropology of compensation in Homer, which she locates in the wider context of agonistic exchange. Wilson argues that a struggle over definitions is a central feature of elite competition for status in the zero-sum and fluid ranking system characteristic of Homeric society. This system can be used to explain why Achilleus refuses Agamemnon's 'compensation' in Book 9, as well as why and how the embassy tries to mask it. Ransom, Revenge, and Heroic Identity in the Iliad thus examines the traditional semantic, cultural and poetic matrix of which compensation is an integral part.

Aeschylus, the Oresteia
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ISBN: 1107148790 9786612394652 1282394657 051164423X 0511800266 0511166079 0511164122 0511566743 0511164920 9780511164125 9780511164927 0511162529 9780511162527 9780521832298 0521832292 9780521539814 0521539811 9780511166075 9780511800269 9780511644238 0521832292 0521539811 9781107148796 661239465X 9781282394650 9780511566745 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival and the social and political background of Greek tragedy, and offers a reading of this central trilogy. Simon Goldhill focuses on the play's themes of justice, sexual politics, violence, and the position of man within culture, and explores how Aeschylus constructs a myth for the city in which he lived. A final chapter considers the influence of the Oresteia on later theatre. Its clear structure and guide to further reading will make this an invaluable guide for students and teachers alike.

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