Revenge in Attic and later tragedy /
Burnett, Anne Pippin, 1925-2017.
Revenge in Attic and later tragedy / Anne Pippin Burnett. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998. - 1 online resource (xviii, 306 pages) - Sather classical lectures ; v. 62 . - Sather classical lectures ; v. 62. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Huge frenzy and quaint malice : Seneca and the English Renaissance -- Odysseus, Pindar's Heracles, and the Tyrannicides -- Festival vengeance : Euripides' Cyclops and Sophocles' Ajax -- Ritualized revenge : Aeschylus' Choephori -- Delphic matricide : Sophocles' Electra -- Women doing men's work : Euripides' Children of Heracles and Hecuba -- Child-killing mothers : Sophocles' Tereus -- Connubial revenge : Euripides' Medea -- The women's quarters : Euripides' Electra -- Philanthropic revenge : Euripides' Orestes -- Appendix : Medea's monologue.
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"Moderns tend to view the drama of ancient Athens as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Because it was a state theater, the Attic stage is also supposed to have offered lessons in the peaceable virtues that the city required. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place distinct both from reality and from the ethics of ordinary life. We who live among tired and demystified political institutions are afraid that individuals unrestrained by the influence of the community may resort to crime and violence. Yet in an Attic vengeance play, a treacherous "criminal" triumphs over a victim. How could the city of Athens show its citizens Medea's murder of her children? Orestes' killing of his mother? Anne Burnett reveals a larger reality in these ancient plays, comparing them to later drama and finding in them forgotten and powerful meaning."--Jacket.
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Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Revenge in literature.
Tragédie grecque--Histoire et critique.
Vengeance dans la littérature.
DRAMA--Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Revenge in literature.
Grieks.
Tragedies.
Wraak.
Receptie.
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Revenge in literature.
Vengeance--Dans la littérature.
Tragédie grecque--Histoie et critique.
Tragédie grecque--Thèmes, motifs.
Revanche dans la littérature.
Electronic books.
tragedies.
Tragedies (Drama)
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Tragedies (Drama)
Literary criticism.
Tragédies.
Critiques littéraires.
PA3136 / .B79 1998eb
882/.0109
HUM4042
Revenge in Attic and later tragedy / Anne Pippin Burnett. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1998. - 1 online resource (xviii, 306 pages) - Sather classical lectures ; v. 62 . - Sather classical lectures ; v. 62. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Huge frenzy and quaint malice : Seneca and the English Renaissance -- Odysseus, Pindar's Heracles, and the Tyrannicides -- Festival vengeance : Euripides' Cyclops and Sophocles' Ajax -- Ritualized revenge : Aeschylus' Choephori -- Delphic matricide : Sophocles' Electra -- Women doing men's work : Euripides' Children of Heracles and Hecuba -- Child-killing mothers : Sophocles' Tereus -- Connubial revenge : Euripides' Medea -- The women's quarters : Euripides' Electra -- Philanthropic revenge : Euripides' Orestes -- Appendix : Medea's monologue.
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"Moderns tend to view the drama of ancient Athens as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Because it was a state theater, the Attic stage is also supposed to have offered lessons in the peaceable virtues that the city required. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place distinct both from reality and from the ethics of ordinary life. We who live among tired and demystified political institutions are afraid that individuals unrestrained by the influence of the community may resort to crime and violence. Yet in an Attic vengeance play, a treacherous "criminal" triumphs over a victim. How could the city of Athens show its citizens Medea's murder of her children? Orestes' killing of his mother? Anne Burnett reveals a larger reality in these ancient plays, comparing them to later drama and finding in them forgotten and powerful meaning."--Jacket.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified]:
HathiTrust Digital Library.
2021.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780520919952 (electronic bk.) 0520919955 (electronic bk.) 0585160198 (electronic bk.) 9780585160191 (electronic bk.) 9780520210967 0520210964
Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Revenge in literature.
Tragédie grecque--Histoire et critique.
Vengeance dans la littérature.
DRAMA--Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Revenge in literature.
Grieks.
Tragedies.
Wraak.
Receptie.
Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.
Revenge in literature.
Vengeance--Dans la littérature.
Tragédie grecque--Histoie et critique.
Tragédie grecque--Thèmes, motifs.
Revanche dans la littérature.
Electronic books.
tragedies.
Tragedies (Drama)
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Tragedies (Drama)
Literary criticism.
Tragédies.
Critiques littéraires.
PA3136 / .B79 1998eb
882/.0109
HUM4042