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Sommerstein. Aeschylus, Suppliants
Lexis, 2020 Review of Aeschylus (2019). Suppliants. Edited by Alan H. Sommerstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 404 pp.
Garvie, Alex F.
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Aeschylus' geographic imagination
Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2009 After reviewing various scholars’ accounts of geographical references in Aeschylus’ plays, some seeing exoticism, some serious geographic knowledge reflecting Ionian science, some focused exclusively on the opposition of Greek and barbarian, I argue that
Peter W. Rose
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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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One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens [PDF]
J Anal PsycholAbstract For both Jung and Shakespeare, one‐sidedness is the fundamental tragic trait. Jung proposed that as an individual develops, they inevitably associate their identity with certain modes of perception and interaction, and that this leads to psychological polarization.
Sofie Qwarnström
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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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On the correct way to supplicate the gods in Seven against Thebes
Ágora, 2023 The Chorus in Seven against Thebes is made up of maidens who have the important task of supplicating the gods in the crucial moment before battle, and they must do so correctly for their plea to be effective.
Marta González González
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Critical Stages, 2021 In 2003, Theodoros Terzopoulos, the internationally acclaimed Greek theatre director, staged a performance which was based on fragments of ancient Greek dramas written by Aeschylus; the play he created was called Epigonoi.
Menelaos Karantzas
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An Examination of the Concepts of Hamartia and Hubris in Iranian and Greek Mythological-Tragic Literature (Case Study: Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh and the Plays of Aeschylus) [PDF]
متن شناسی ادب فارسیThis study adopts a comparative approach to examine the two major cultures of Iran and Greece through their mythological–tragic literature, focusing on the key concepts of hamartia and hubris.
Fateme Amiri kolajoobi +1 more
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Aitia, 2022 This article offers a reading of the description of the Battle of Actium that closes the ekphrasis of the Shield (Aeneid, 8.671–728) in light of the description of the defeat of Salamis in Aeschylus’ Persians.
Florence Klein
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Ancient Greek theater as a school for the city: why Socrates was not a theatergoer [PDF]
HypothekaiThe article explores the phenomenon of ancient Greek theater, portraying it as a unique space where an entire cityscape unfolded before the eyes of thousands of spectators.
Victoria
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