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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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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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One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens [PDF]

J Anal Psychol
Abstract 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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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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Mantica della madre, profeta del padre

Lexis, 2022
This paper aims to discuss the genealogical contents and structure of the opening verses of Aeschylus’ Eumenides. Considering genealogies as mythical digressions ideologically orientated, I will outline those elements that do not appear elsewhere in ...
Wyburgh, Sonny
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The Birth of Tragedy in the Cinquecento: Humanism and Literary History [PDF]

, 2011
Humanist literary historians treated Aristotle’s ‘Poetics’ in a distinctive way: as a historical source. How had the Greek tragedy arisen, what was its relation to the comedy, and how was it performed?
Haugen, Kristine Louise
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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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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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Political Comedy in Aristophanes [PDF]

, 1987
This paper argues that Aristophanic comedy, although it takes contemporary political life as its point of departure, is not political in the sense of aiming to influence politics outside the theatre.
Heath, M.
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