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Pasolini’s Greeks and the Irrational
Clotho, 2022 This article traces Pasolini’s engagement with Aeschylus Oresteia and the concept of the “irrational,” through which he sought to excavate patterns of ideological resistance in the classical past.
Claudio Sansone
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Hamartia: The Philosophical Feature of Tragedy [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2008 According to the Aristotelian tradition, a tragedy consists of several elements: mythos, character, diction, reflection, orchestra, and sound. Aristotle recognized three parts of the mythos in a tragedy: peripeteia, anagnorisis, and catastrophe.
alireza mohammadi barchani
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Fear, Self-Pity, and War in Fifth-Century Athenian Tragedy: Ethos and Education in a Warrior Society [PDF]
Close Encounters in War Journal, 2021 In Greek culture, the natural connection between war and fear was acknowledged since Homer. However, during the Hellenic era (507-323 BC), war began to be represented on the stage in tragedies, in which the connection between war and fear included the ...
Maria Arpaia
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The Work of Tragic Productions: Towards a New History of Drama as Labor Culture [PDF]
, 2014 Preliminary analysis of the representation of laborers in Greek tragedy and satyr ...
David Roselli
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Nietzsche on the good of cultural change
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 927-949, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper attributes to Nietzsche a theory of cultural development according to which pyramid societies—steeply hierarchical societies following a unified morality—systematically alternate with motley societies, which emerge when pyramid societies encounter other cultures or allow their strict mores to relax. Motley societies contain multiple
Rachel Cristy
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Technai e prerogative divine sulla scena del teatro di Eschilo*
Mythos, 2017 The paper investigates so-called technai in Aeschylus’ works, particularly with regard to the role attributed to the Gods as primary, if not unique actors and discoverers of technical knowledge.
Franco Giorgianni
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If it is language that speaks, what do speakers do? Confronting Heidegger's language ontology
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 285-310, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Many of Heidegger’s statements about language should sound familiar to linguistic anthropologists, starting with the pragmatic‐indexical functions of speaking (in Sein und Zeit) and continuing, in later years, with something resembling linguistic relativity.
Alessandro Duranti
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, 2015 While scholars generally agree that Stesichorus was important to the tragedians, studies of the relationship focus on the broad shaping of the plot or stylistic devices, and suggest little detailed engagement at a textual level.
Swift, Laura
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Support‐Verb Constructions with Objects: Greek‐Coptic Interference in the Documentary Papyri?1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 382-403, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Support‐verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot, for example, to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion yesterday. The article examines direct‐object structures with support‐verb constructions in Greek documentary papyri from fourth‐ to mid‐seventh‐century Egypt.
Victoria Beatrix Fendel
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Euripides and the Origins of Democratic «Anarchia»
Erga-Logoi, 2019 In this essay, I argue that the terms anarchia and anarchos had become associated with critiques of democracy before the final quarter of the fifth century BCE.
Jonah F. Radding
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