Aeschylus and War

2017-02-10 History

Author : Isabelle Torrance
Release : 2017-02-10
Genre : History
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Download or read book Aeschylus and War written by Isabelle Torrance. This book was released on 2017-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a group of interdisciplinary experts who demonstrate that Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes is a text of continuing relevance and value for exploring ancient, contemporary and comparative issues of war and its attendant trauma. The volume features contributions from an international cast of experts, as well as a conversation with a retired U.S. Army Lt. Col., giving her perspectives on the blending of reality and fiction in Aeschylus’ war tragedies and on the potential of Greek tragedy to speak to contemporary veterans. This book is a fascinating resource for anyone interested in Aeschylus, Greek tragedy and its reception, and war literature.

The Seven Against Thebes

2021-11-17 Drama

Author : Aeschylus
Release : 2021-11-17
Genre : Drama
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Download or read book The Seven Against Thebes written by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2021-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Against Thebes Aeschylus - The Seven Against Thebes is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The bulk of the play consists of rich dialogues between the citizens of Thebes and their king Eteocles regarding the threat of the hostile army before their gates. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by Eteocles and his supporters. The trilogy won the first prize at the City Dionysia. Its first two plays, Laius and Oedipus as well as the satyr play Sphinx are no longer extant.

Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes

2013-11-20 Literary Criticism

Author : Isabelle Torrance
Release : 2013-11-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes written by Isabelle Torrance. This book was released on 2013-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our earliest surviving Greek tragedies, Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes is an extraordinarily rich poetic text. It dramatises the civil war between the sons of Oedipus Polynices - the exile, and Eteocles - reigning king of Thebes. Polynices marches on Thebes to regain his throne along with six other champion warriors and their armies, but the expedition is doomed, and the meaning of Oedipus' enigmatic curse on his sons ultimately becomes clear through their simultaneous fratricide and the extinction of the Theban house. This book places the drama within the context of the connected trilogy of which it was a part. It investigates the play's tensions between city and family and the omnipresence of curse and ritual within the religious and political environment of fifth century Greece. The drama's focus on the world of male warriors, and its stark opposition of the sexes through the female Chorus, is analysed in terms of warrior ideology in epic and Greek understanding of appropriate behaviour. Finally, it explores the complex legacy of the play through its influence on Sophocles and Euripides, and shows how the drama's condemnation of civil war has been exploited as an analogue for events in modern history. This is part of a series of accessible introductions to ancient tragedies. Each volume discusses the main themes of a play and the central developments in modern criticism, while also addressing the play's historical context and the history of its performance and adaptation.

The Eumenides

2021-11-15 Religion

Author : Aeschylus
Release : 2021-11-15
Genre : Religion
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Download or read book The Eumenides written by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2021-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eumenides Aeschylus - Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and eleven other judges chosen by her from the Athenian citizenry at the Areopagus (Rock of Ares, a flat rocky hill by the Athenian agora where the homicide court of Athens later held its sessions), to decide whether Orestes's killing of his mother, Clytemnestra, makes him guilty of the crime of murder.

The Persians

2021-11-16 Foreign Language Study

Author : Aeschylus
Release : 2021-11-16
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Download or read book The Persians written by Aeschylus. This book was released on 2021-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persians Aeschylus - The Persians is an Athenian tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus. First produced in 472 BC, it is the oldest surviving play in the history of theatre. It dramatises the Persian response to news of their military defeat at the Battle of Salamis (480 BC), which was a decisive episode in the Greco-Persian Wars; as such, the play is also notable for being the only extant Greek tragedy that is based on contemporary events.

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