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Seven against Thebes
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ISBN: 1280605693 0198020155 9780198020158 9780195017328 0195017323 9781911535751 1911535757 0195070070 0195017323 9780195070071 9786610605699 6610605696 9781280605697 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York : ©1973 Oxford University Press,

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The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedy The Seven Against Thebes. The third and only remaining play in a trilogy dealing with related events, The Seven Against Thebes tells the story of the Argive attempt to claim the Kingdom of Thebes, and of the deaths of the brothers Eteocles and Polyneices, each by the others hand. Long dismissed by critics as ritualistic and lacking in dramatic tension, Seven Against Thebes is revealed by Hecht and Bacon as a work of great unity and drama, one exceptionally rich in symbolism and imagery.


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Narrative, intertext, and space in Euripides' Phoenissae
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ISBN: 9783110245929 3110245922 9783110245936 3110245930 1282885197 9786612885198 9781282885196 661288519X Year: 2010 Volume: 6 Publisher: Berlin New York : De Gruyter,

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Euripides' Phoenissae bears one of the richest tragic plots: multiple narrative levels are interwoven by means of various anachronies, focalizers offer different and often challenging points of view, while a complex mythical matrix is deftly employed as the backdrop against which the exploration of the mechanics of tragic narrative takes place. After providing a critical perspective on the ongoing scholarly dialogue regarding narratology and drama, this book uses the former as a working tool for the study and interpretation of the latter. The Phoenissae is approached as a coherent narrative unit and issues like the use of myth, narrators, intertext, time and space are discussed in detail. It is within these contexts that the play is seen as a Theban mythical 'thesaurus' both exploring previous mythical ramifications and making new additions. The result is rewarding: Euripides constructs a handbook of the Theban saga that was informative for those mythically untrained, fascinating for those theatrically demanding, but also dexterously open upon each one's reception.

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Narration (Rhetoric) --- Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Polyneices (Greek mythology) --- Eteocles (Greek mythology) --- Euripides. --- Thebes (Greece) --- In literature. --- Eteocles (Greek mythology). --- Euripides. Phoenician women. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Polyneices (Greek mythology). --- Thebes (Greece) -- In literature. --- Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Thēvai (Greece) --- Thívai (Greece) --- Thebes (Greece : Ancient city) --- Thiva (Greece) --- Thēva (Greece) --- Tebe (Greece) --- Theben (Greece) --- Thebes (Greece : Extinct city) --- Θῆβαι (Greece) --- Thēbai (Greece) --- Θήβα (Greece) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Polynices --- Eteocles, --- Étéocle, --- Eteoklēs, --- Eteoklo, --- 厄忒俄克勒斯, --- Етеокл, --- Етеокле, --- Этеокл, --- エテオクレース, --- אטאוקלס --- 에테오클레스, --- اتئوکلس --- Ἐτεοκλῆς, --- Polineikes --- Polinice --- Polinices --- Polinik --- Poliniko --- Polinizes --- Polyneices --- Polyneikēs --- Polynice --- Polynikes --- Полінік --- ポリュネイケース --- פוליניקס --- 폴리네이케스 --- Полиник --- Палінік --- Πολυνείκης --- Greek Tragedy. --- Interpretation. --- Narratology. --- Phoenissae.

The medieval tradition of Thebes : history and narrative in the OF Roman de Thebes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate
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ISBN: 1135879494 1135879508 1280154403 020350285X 9780203502853 9786610154401 6610154406 9780415969932 041596993X 041596993X 9781135879501 9781280154409 9781135879457 9781135879495 0203606361 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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The first comprehensive study of the classical legend of Thebes in the Middle Ages.

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