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Ambiguità e doppiezza del Prometeo eschileo
Il castello di Elsinore, 2020 This essay, an examination of Aeschylus’ “Prometheus Bound”, is an attempt to move away from the traditional approach to the play, which has tended to exalt the character of Prometheus as a benefactor of humanity, against the tyrannical power of Zeus ...
Roberto Alonge
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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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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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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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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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Il castello di Elsinore, 2020 The experience of the University Theatre of Padua, directed by Gianfranco de Bosio, began in 1946 and ended in 1953. The shows that mark, respectively, beginning and end are: Aeschylus’ Libation Bearers and A Man is a Man by Bertolt Brecht.
Maria Rita Simone
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, 2013 Dictionaries of the Ancient Greek language distinguish only two or three different meanings of the Greek word ὕστριξ. The present author analyses all the contexts and glosses where the word in question appears.
Witczak, Krzysztof
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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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Crisis and philosophy: Aeschylus and Euripides on Orestes' crimes [PDF]
, 2012 Since the XIX century, a pleiad of philosophers and historians support the idea that Greek philosophy, usually reported to have started with the presocratics, lays its basis in a previous moment: the Greek myths – systematized by Homer and Hesiod – and ...
Lago de Sousa Barroso, Gabriel +1 more
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The Self-Definition of Hellenic Identity through the Culture of Mousikē [PDF]
, 2019 Altgriechische Quellen sind voll von Verweisen auf die Musik von Völkern, die nicht griechisch sind und deshalb stereotyp als ,Barbaren‘ bezeichnet werden.
Rocconi, Eleonora
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