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A legal and historical commentary to Cicero's Oratio Pro C. Rabirio perduellionis reo
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ISBN: 9025606849 9789025606848 Year: 1978 Publisher: Amsterdam : Adolf M. Hakkert,

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The sacrifice of Socrates : Athens, Plato, Girard
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ISBN: 1628951265 1609173384 1611860547 Year: 2012 Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press,

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When Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public's blame was directed at Socrates, a man whose unique appearance and behavior, as well as his disapproval of the democracy, made him a ready target. Socrates was subsequently put on trial and sentenced to death. However, as René Girard has pointed out, no individual can be held responsible for a communal crisis. Plato's Apology depicts Socrates as both the bane and the cure of Greek society, while his Crito shows a sacrificial Socrates, what some might consider a pharmakos fig


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Amazons: a study in Athenian mythmaking
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Year: 1984 Publisher: Baltimore, Md Johns Hopkins University Press

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Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone
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ISBN: 0847692175 Year: 1998 Publisher: Totowa Rowman & Littlefield

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Athenian myths and institutions : words in action
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ISBN: 0195067193 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,

Athenian myths and institutions : words in action
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ISBN: 1280440724 0198023162 1423736958 1601298005 9781423736950 9781601298003 9781280440724 9786610440726 6610440727 0195067185 0195067193 9780195067187 9780195067194 0197704301 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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This book analyzes the relationships between Athenian myths and the institutions that informed them. In particular, it examines how myths encode thoughts on ritual, the code of the warrior, marriage, and politics. Combining traditional historical and literary criticism with the approaches of anthropologists, feminist critics, and cultural historians, the authors study specific examples of the epic and tragedy, as well as funeral orations and the Parthenon marbles, to illuminate the ways mythic media exploited the beliefs, concepts, and practices of fifth-century Athens, simultaneously exemplif


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The Oedipus Casebook : reading Sophocles' Oedipus the King
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ISBN: 9781611863390 9781609176150 Year: 2019 Publisher: East Lansing (Mich.) : Michigan State University Press,

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Who killed Laius? Most readers assume Oedipus did. At the play's end, he stands convicted of murdering his father, marrying his mother, and triggering a deadly plague. With selections from a stellar assortment of critics including Walter Burkert, Terry Eagleton, Michel Foucault, René Girard, and Jean-Pierre Vernant, this book reopens the Oedipus case and lets readers judge for themselves. The Greek word for tragedy means "goat song." Is Oedipus the goat? Helene Peet Foley calls him "the kind of leader a democracy would both love and desire to ostracize." The Oedipus Casebook readings weigh the evidence against Oedipus, place the play in the context of Greek scapegoat rites, and explore the origins of tragedy in the festival of Dionysus. This unique critical edition includes a new translation of the play by distinguished classics scholar Wm. Blake Tyrrell and the authoritative Greek text established by H. Lloyd-Jones and N. G. Wilson.


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The sacrifice of Socrates : Athens, Plato, Girard
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ISBN: 9781611860542 Year: 2012 Publisher: East Lansing Michigan State University

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Recapturing Sophocles'Antigone
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Year: 1998 Publisher: Lanham, Md. Boulder Oxford Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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