Aeschylus / edited by Michael Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lloyd, Michael (Michael A.), editor.

Series:

Oxford readings in classical studies.

Oxford readings in classical studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aeschylus--Criticism and interpretation.

Aeschylus.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 418 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2007]

Summary:

A collection of thirteen of the most important articles on the great Athenian tragedian Aeschylus published in the last fifty years. Three articles have been translated into English for the first time, and others have a fresh foreword or postscript by the author. The editor has supplied a substantial introduction and an index. - ;This book is an anthology of thirteen of the most important articles published on Aeschylus in the last fifty years. It gives roughly equal coverage to the seven surviving plays, and there is also a chapter which places them in the context of Aeschylus' work as a whole. Three articles have been translated into English for the first time, and others have a fresh foreword or postscript by the author. Greek quotations have been translated for the benefit of those reading the plays in. English. The editor has supplied a substantial introduction and an index. - ;A must for the university library - Alan Beale, The Journal of Classics Teaching.

Contents:

The Aischylean tetralogy : attested and conjectured groups / T. Gantz

Tragédie et reversement : l'exemple des Perses / S. Saïd

The king and eye : the rule of the father in Greek tragedy / M. Griffith

Die Gestalt des Eteokles in Aeschylus' Sieben gegen Theben / K. von Fritz

Der Schluss der Hiketiden und die Danaiden-Trilogie des Aischylos' Rheinisches Museum / W. Rösler

Pelasgus and politics in Aeschylus' Danaid trilogy / P. Burian

The omen of the eagles and the [ethos] of Agamemnon / J. J. Peradotto

Morals and politics in the Oresteia / E. R. Dodds

Politics and the Oresteia / C. W. Macleod

Aeschylus' imagery / B. H. Fowler

The first stasimon of Aeschylus' Choephori : myth and mirror image / A. Lebeck

Religion and politics in Aeschylus' Oresteia / A. M. Bowie

The Prometheus trilogy / M. L. West.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-156912-7

OCLC:

958542289