Tereus Through the Ages : Reassembling the Myth of Tereus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbattista, Alessandra.

Series:

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes Series ; v.184

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Greek.

Mythology, Roman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

This volume constitutes the first attempt at bringing together scholars from Greek literature, Latin literature and archaeology working on the tradition of the Tereus myth.More specifically, it will focus on the reconstruction, transmission and reception of the myth in Greece and Rome by examining the different adaptations and interactions.

Contents:

Intro

Tereus Throughthe Ages

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Contents

Introduction

1 Introduction

2 Literature review

3 Methodology

4 Book structure

5 Conclusion

Bibliography

(Re)assembling the Tereus Myth: Vase Painting, Memory, and the Senses

2 Context and methodology

3 Myth as political, mnemonical and sensorial assemblage

4 Art transforming the myth in Southern Italy

Abbreviations

Lamenting about the Wrong Crime: Homer, Sophocles and Demonising the Other

2 Aedon's mistake

3 The dark shadow of Thebes

4 The darker shadow of Thrace

Hunting Tereus: Rubens, Shakespeare, Sophocles

Passion, Knowledge and Truth: Second Thoughts on Sophocles' Tereus

2 The two sisters and the κωφὸν πρόσωπον

3 P.Oxy. 5292 and the scenic context: the Shepherd and the news

4 Knowledge and jealousy

5 Tragic patterns

5.1 Loneliness

5.2 The News

5.3 The Furies

5.4 Was Philomela confined? Praesentia in absentia

6 Who offers libations?

ζηλοτυπ[ίᾳ ......] οἰστρηθεισ̃α: Domestic Violence and Revenge in Sophocles' Tereus

2 Zelotypia and intimate partner violence in ancient texts

3 Understanding intimate partner violence

4 Isolation and domestic violence in tragedy: Sophocles' Procne and Euripides' Medea

5 Violent resistance: Sophocles' Procne and Aeschylus' Danaids

6 Conclusion

Tereus' Illicit Penetration(s): A New Reading of Fragment 581 R

2 The hoopoe and the hawk: a double metamorphosis

3 Rape and cannibalism: a chiastic structure

4 Conclusion

The Voice of the Shuttle: The Tereus Myth in Aristophanes' Birds.

1 Comedy, tragedy and assemblage theory

2 The Birds and Tereus: sight and sound

3 The deception of cloth

4 Birds: costume and clothing

5 Writing

6 Music and speech

7 Puns and persuasion

8 Birds and the Sicilian Expedition

Tereus in the Fifth and Fourth Century: From Paratragedy to Mythic Burlesque

2 Sophocles' vs Philocles' Hoopoe: Tereus in Aristophanes' Birds and Eupolis' Taxiarkhoi

3 Birds beyond Aristophanes: Cantharus' Tereus, Nightingales and tragicomedy

4 Puns and parody: Anaxandrides' Tereus and Timocles' Icarian Satyrs

5 Philetaerus' Tereus

The Tereus Myth in Roman Republican Drama

"(In)Human, All Too (In)Human": Ovid's Tereus and the Vulnerable Body

2 Symmetry, reversal, and unstable identity

3 Beastliness, spectacle, and the collapse of the human body

Postface

Methodological Appendix: The Orchidand the Wasp - Reading Fragments with Assemblage Theory

Post-structuralism and the post-traditional

Posthumanism and the post-human

The philosopher and the wasp, the poet and the bee

List of Contributors

General Index

Index of Sources.

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ISBN:

3-11-072880-X

OCLC:

1536146469