Converging truths : Euripides' Ion and the Athenian quest for self-definition / by Katerina Zacharia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zacharia, Katerina, 1967-

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 242.

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 0169-8958 ; 242

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euripides. Ion.

Euripides.

Ion (Mythological character)--In literature.

Ion.

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Apollo (Deity)--In literature.

Apollo.

Apollo (Deity).

Group identity in literature.

Nativism in literature.

Self in literature.

Athens (Greece)--In literature.

Athens (Greece).

Physical Description:

xiv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003.

Summary:

This book is a study of Euripides' Ion, produced in 412 BC at a period of political crisis in Athens. Through careful analysis of its political, psychological, religious and poetic aspects and use of modern critical theory and recent scholarship on Athenian ethnicity, the Ion emerges as a polyphonic work expressing different and converging truths.

Contents:

Chapter 1 From Delphi to Athens

1.1. Curtain-raiser: Delphi, March 412 BC 1

1.2. Euripides' Ion: Performance Date and Plot Summary 3

1.3. Delphi and Athens: the Two Dramatic Settings of the Ion 7

Chapter 2 Athenian Foundation Myths and the Ion; Ionianism and Autochthony

2.2. Ionianism and the Ion 48

2.3. Autochthony 56

2.3.1. Myths of Autochthony 56

2.3.2. The Athenian claim to Autochthony 60

2.4. Ion 66

2.4.1. Repetition and Difference 66

2.4.2. Athenians and Foreigners; Ion and Xouthos 70

2.5. Kreousa, the Kekropids, and Virgin Sacrifice 76

2.5.1. Repetition and Difference 76

2.5.2. Kreousa's Monody: A reading 78

2.5.3. Kreousa in Transition 96

2.6. The Cure of Athens 99

Chapter 3 Apollo in the Ion

3.2. Apolline Pairings 107

3.3. Historical Interpretations 118

3.4. Ephebic Apollo 123

3.5. Apollo the Founding Father 125

3.6. Oracle and Play 128

3.7. Apollo as Director? 139

Chapter 4 The Ion in the Euripidean Corpus

4.1. Tragic, Comic, Serious 150

4.2. Duality 155

4.3. Polyphony and Carnivalesque 166

4.4. Dialogic Vision of Truth 176.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-212) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004130004

OCLC:

51266067