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"Dans la nuit de Troie a pour objectif de faire redécouvrir une pièce méconnue et longtemps déconsidérée du répertoire tragique, le Rhésos attribué à Euripide, et d'en interroger la postérité paradoxale en montrant sa force poétique et dramaturgique. Il s'agit en effet de mettre en valeur l'originalité de cette pièce qui a vocation à être retraduite et rejouée sur les scènes contemporaines : une pièce unique en son genre parmi celles qui nous sont parvenues, parce qu'elle se déroule entièrement de nuit et parce qu'elle reprend dans sa trame un chant de l'Iliade, le chant X. Une pièce qui ne cesse de dialoguer avec la tradition poétique et avec le texte homérique en particulier et qui fait de ce matériau un grand spectacle. C'est aussi parce que l'épopée homérique connaît aujourd'hui un regain de vitalité au théâtre, en art et en littérature, témoignant d'un véritable "besoin" d'Homère, que le Rhésos est plus que jamais d'actualité. Alors que l'œuvre a été longuement occultée, trois commentaires en langue anglaise ont en effet été publiés depuis 2011, et une nouvelle édition du Rhésos est parue en 2004. Il suscite en outre encore des réécritures contemporaines. Mais il n'existait pas de commentaire de l'œuvre en langue française."--Page 4 of cover.
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"This new comparative reading of Euripides' Bacchae and Aristophanes' Frogs sets the two plays squarely in their contemporary social and political context and explores their impact on the audiences of the time. Both were composed during a crucial period of Athenian political life following the oligarchic seizure of power in 411 BC and the restoration of democracy in 410 BC, and were in all likelihood produced nearly simultaneously a few months before the rise of the Thirty Tyrants and the ensuing civil war. They also demonstrate significant similarities that are particularly notable among extant Attic theatre productions, including the role of the god Dionysos as protagonist and architect of religious and political action, and the presence of Demetrian and Dionysiac mystic choruses as proponents of the appeasement of civil discord as the cure for Athens' ills. Focusing on the mystic, civic and political content of both Bacchae and Frogs, this volume offers not only a new reading of the plays, but also an interdisciplinary perspective on the special characteristics of mystery cults in Athens in their political context and the nature of theatrical audiences and their reaction to mystic themes. Its illumination of the function of each play at a pivotal moment in fifth-century Athenian politics will be of value to scholars and students of ancient Greek drama, religion and history"--
Comparative literature --- Euripides --- Aristophanes [Comicus] --- Greek drama --- History and criticism. --- Euripides. --- Aristophanes. --- Greece --- Politics and government
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"Smaro Nikolaidou-Arampatzi analyzes the direct and indirect evidence of Euripides' fragmentary play, the Ino, and reexamines matters of reconstruction and interpretation. This work is a full-scale commentary on Euripides' Ino, with a new arrangement of the fragments, an English translation in prose, and an extensive bibliography."--
Greek drama (Tragedy) --- History and criticism --- Ino --- Euripides. --- Euripides --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Courtesy in literature --- Euripides --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Characters. --- Eurípides, --- Caracterización. --- Personajes. --- Crítica e interpretación. --- Courtesy in literature. --- Characters and characteristics. --- Euripides.
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Euripides --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης
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This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and relations more broadly. Bringing together 20 chapters by experts in Classical Studies, English literature, performance and critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force of Euripidean drama, and demonstrate how the analytical frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last 30 years deeply resonate with the ways in which it twists poetic form to challenge well-established modes of the social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms and reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the center of the interpretive act.
Queer theory --- Gender identity in literature --- Euripides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Gender identity --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης --- Euripides - Criticism and interpretation --- Queer theory. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism
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This book consists of two main, interrelated thematic units: the reception of Aeschylus' Dionysiac plays in Bacchae and the refiguration of the latter in the Byzantine drama Christus Patiens. In both sections the common denominator is Euripides' Bacchae, which is approached as a receiving text in the first unit and as a source text in the second. Each section addresses dramatic, ideological and cultural facets of the reception process, yielding insight into pivotal Dionysiac motifs that the ancient and Byzantine treatments share. Different pieces of evidence, mythographic, stylistic, and iconographic, are interrogated, so that light is shed on aspects of the storyline, the concepts, and the imagery of Aeschylus' two tetralogies. At the same time, Bacchae provides a valuable exemplum for aspects of dramatic technique, plot-patterns, and concepts refigured in Christus Patiens. This exploration thoroughly and systematically focuses on the ways in which the pagan play was transformed to bring forward new pillars of thought and innovative values in different cultural and ideological contexts over a wide time span from Greek Antiquity to Byzantium.
Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Greek drama --- Euripides. --- Aeschylus. --- Aeschylus --- Eskhil --- Eschylus --- Aischylos --- Esquilo --- Eschilo --- Aiskhilos --- Eshil --- Æskílos --- Ajschylos --- Eschil --- Esḳilos --- Eschyle --- Äschylos --- Eskili --- Aiszkhülosz --- Eschylos --- Iskilos --- Эсхил --- אייסכילוס --- איסכילאס --- איסכילוס --- إيسخولوس --- ايسخيلوس --- Αἰσχύλος --- Euripides --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης --- Euripide,
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The book is written mainly for students to enable them better to appreciate and enjoy Euripides' Andromache. Its presentation seeks to combine depth of analysis with clarity and accessibility. It discusses Greek theatre and performance, the myth behind the play, and the literary, intellectual, and political context in which it was written and first performed. The book provides analyses of the various characters, and highlights the play's ambiguities and complexities. What makes Andromache of special interest is the fact that, of the 32 extant tragedies, it might have been originally produced outside Athens. This in turn leads the discussion of how the play's scrutiny of the Spartan characters affected the off-stage audience. Andromache is the only play that portrays the human toll caused by the Trojan War to both the Trojan and the Greek sides. After the Fall of Troy, Andromache, former wife of Hector, has been given to Neoptolemus, Achilles' son, as a war-prize. Andromache bore Neoptolemus a son, Molossus, before Neoptolemus married Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen. While Neoptolemus is away, Menelaus and Hermione attempt to kill Andromache and Molossus, causing a rift between the two families who were the major players in the War: the house of Atreus and the house of Peleus, father of Achilles. Although Neoptolemus is murdered, the play ends with a prophecy for the future of the line of descent of Peleus and Thetis in the form of the blessed kingdom of Molossia.
Euripides --- Plays --- Theatre --- Andromache --- Ancient Greek --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Drama --- Drama, Modern --- Dramas --- Dramatic works --- Playscripts --- Literature --- Dialogue --- Philosophy --- Plays. --- Andromache. --- Ancient Greek. --- Comparative literature
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