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From agent to spectator : witnessing the aftermath in ancient Greek epic and tragedy / by Emily Allen-Hornblower.
LIBRA PA4037 .A6117 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen-Hornblower, Emily.
- Series:
- Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; vol. 30.
- Trends in classics--supplementary volumes ; vol. 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Homer. Iliad.
- Homer.
- Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
- Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
- Epic poetry, Greek.
- Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
- Greek drama (Tragedy).
- Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
- Spectators in literature.
- Witnesses in literature.
- Iliad (Homer).
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016.
- Summary:
- "We tend to associate the act of witnessing with bystanders who have not played an active role in the events that they are watching. The present monograph considers characters from Homer's Iliad and Greek tragedy that are looking on and reacting (in word, deed, or both) to their own actions. It closely examines those scenes in which they are put in the position of a spectator, witnessing the aftermath of their deed(s)"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The powerless spectator: Witnessing the limits of the human condition 5
- Voicing their vision: Emotional response and character 6
- Time, knowledge, and power 8
- Narrative in tragedy, tragedy as narrative 11
- Perceptions and values 12
- Chapter Outline 15
- Chapter 1 The Helpless Witness: Achilles, Patroclus, and the Portrayal of Vulnerability in the Mad 18
- Methodology 22
- Watching through the eyes of philoi 23
- Seeing and pitying 25
- Helpless spectators, mortal and immortal 29
- Zeus's helplessness: Regarding the death of Sarpedon 31
- Looking on from the walls of Troy: The death of Hector 36
- The Death of Patroclus 44
- No witness, no pity? 44
- You, Patroclus 46
- Calling out to the threatened warrior: The Patrocleia and Patroclus's doom 49
- Apostrophes and turning points: danger or death 55
- The downfall of Patroclus 64
- Negativity and absence 65
- Apostrophes and the poetics of helplessness 71
- Absence and presence: The Voice of the Helpless Spectator 74
- Achilles' delayed vision 81
- Mortal Achilles 87
- Chapter 2 Spectatorship, Agency, and Alienation in Sophocles' Trachiniae 94
- Watching through Deianeira's eyes 98
- Pity and Vulnerability 107
- From spectator to agent: Playing Aphrodite 117
- Watching Deianeira watch Heracles burn 127
- The divine agent and spectator: Cypris 140
- Watching Deianeira die 145
- Watching Heracles die 149
- The silence of Heracles 158
- Divine agents and spectators 166
- Chapter 3 From Murderer to Messenger: Body, Speech, and Justice in Greek Tragedy 171
- Part 1 The Murder of Agamemnon: Imagery and vision 177
- Clytemnestra'5 moment of truth 177
- Part 2 Matricide: Speech and the Body 199
- The Death of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus: The Tyranny and the robe 201
- Sophocles' Electro: Viewing Clytemnestra's body through other eyes 210
- Euripides' Electro: Motherhood destroyed 224
- Chapter 4 Neoptolemus Between Agent and Spectator in Sophocles' Philoctetes 247
- The healing presence of a witness and interlocutor 255
- Pain and its perceiver 261
- A blind eye and a deaf ear: The averted gaze and selective hearing of Odysseus 273
- Watch yourself, young man 283
- The sounds of Neoptolemus's moral awakening 285
- How to "act?" 300.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110439069
- 3110439069
- OCLC:
- 943710212
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