Wisdom and folly in Euripides / edited by Poulheria Kyriakou and Antonios Rengakos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kyriakou, Poulheria, editor.

Rengakos, Antonios, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 31.

Trends in classics--supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euripides--Criticism and interpretation.

Euripides.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Wisdom in literature.

Folly in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (456 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"The volume throws fresh light on a major polarity in Euripidean drama, including its roots in the tradition and its reception in vase-painting and literature. Virtually all Euripidean characters are subject to folly and claim some measure of wisdom. Leading international scholars discuss the polarity and the plays' ambiguities from various angles and theoretical perspectives, offering trenchant insights into moral, social and historical issues."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I: General. Luigi Battezzato: Euripides the antiquarian

Martin Hose: Euripides-poet of irritations

G.O. Hutchinson: Gods wise and foolish: Euripides and greek literature from Homer to Plutarch

Maria Serena Mirto: "Rightly does Aphrodite's name begin with aphrosune": Gods and men in wisdom and folly

Ruth Scodel: Wisdom from slaves

Part II: Individual plays. Laura McClure: Hearth and home in Euripides' Alcestis

John Gibert: The wisdom of Jason

Justina Gregory: The education of Hippolytus

Poulheria Kyriakou: Wisdom, nobility, and families in Andromache

Katerina Synodinou: Wisdom through experience: Theseus and Adrastus in Euripides' Suppliant Women

Andrea Rodighiero: "Sail with your fortune": wisdom and defeat in Euripides' Trojan Women

Matthew Wright: The significance of numbers in Trojan Women

Andreas Markantonatos: The Delphic school of government: Apollonian wisdom and Athenian folly in Euripides' Ion

David Konstan: Did Orestes have a conscience? another look at Sunesis in Euripides' Orestes

Anna Lamari: Madness narrative in Euripides' Bacchae

Seth L. Schein: The language of wisdom in Sophokles' Philoktetes and Euripides' Bacchae

Bernd Seidensticker: The figure of Teiresias in Euripides' Bacchae

Davide Susanetti: The Bacchae: manipulation and destruction

P. J. Finglass: Mistaken identity in Euripides' Ino

Part III: Reception. David Sansone: Whatever happened to Euripides' Lekythion (Frogs 1198-1247)?

Thalia Papadopoulou: Euripidean frenzy goes to Rome: the case of Roman comedy and novel

Barbara Goff: The leopard-skin of Heracles: traditional wisdom and untraditional madness in a Ghanaian Alcestis

Michalis Tiverios: New evidence for Euripides' (?) Alkmene: another look at a South Italian vase-painting

List of contributors

Publications by Daniel Iakov.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110452280

3110452286

9783110453140

3110453142

OCLC:

945038018