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Autoriflessività e proiezioni corali nell’Elena di Euripide
Lexis, 2022 Earlier scholarship identified Euripides’ later plays, with the exception of the Bacchae, as examples of the supposed attenuation of tragedy’s choral element, a development considered to be characteristic of the period and linked to the emergence of ...
Castiglioni, Barbara
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Transvestism in Euripides’ Bacchae and its reformulation in some modern versions
Cuadernos de Literatura, 2022 In the last decades, Bacchae by Euripides (408 B.C.) has awakened special interest, which has become evident not only in the numerous pages devoted to comment on it but in the countless versions staged around the world.
Constanza Filócomo
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EURIPIDES’ BACCHAE IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Akroterion, 2012 The Bacchae, as we know it, was first produced in Athens under the direction of Euripides’ son, also called Euripides, in perhaps 405 BC,2 a year or two after his father’s death, but when the tragedian first presented the play he was in Macedonia at the ...
J. Atkinson
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Dramaturgia mitu i tragedii: „Król Roger” Karola Szymanowskiego w tyglu (pop)kultury
Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2023 This article discusses the tragedic aspects of Karol Szymanowski’s 20th-century opera King Roger op. 46. The work’s dramaturgical design was crucially influenced by ancient models (especially Euripides’ The Bacchae) as well as Friedrich Nietzsche’s ...
Katarzyna Lisiecka
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Dalle Baccanti all’Ibiza-Gate. «Schwarzwasser» di Elfriede Jelinek
Studia austriaca, 2022 Taking studies on deconstruction, performance theories, and pragmatics as my point of departure, I investigate Elfriede Jelinek’s last political play Schwarzwasser (2020), where the so-called Ibiza-gate – which in 2018 involved the former Vice ...
Giuliano Lozzi
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Wole Soyinka y Eurípides: una tumultosa celebración de la vida
Anuario de Letras Modernas, 2009 This essay explores Soyinka’s social, political and cultural concerns taking as point of departure his exploration of the role of myth in Yoruba culture and its repercussions in contemporary Nigerian society.
Nair María Anaya Ferreira
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Drunk with Wisdom: Metaphors of Ecstasy in Plato’s Symposium and Lucian of Samosata
Religions, 2021 Among the metaphors that Plato employed in the context of his apophatic approach to philosophical truth and its experience, inebriation stands out in the Symposium, where famously Socrates is compared to Dionysian figures such as the Silenoi and Marsyas (
Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides
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Épidaure ou la question de l’espace : Dimitris Papaioannou et Matthias Langhoff
Pallas, 2018 This article is about the impact of the ancient theatrical place on contemporary representations of Greek tragedies, focusing on two performances created at the ancient theatre at Epidaurus in 1995 and 1997: Xenakis’ Oresteia Aeschylus suite by Dimitris ...
Sotirios Haviaras, Marie-Noëlle Semet
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Looking Backwards for a Way Forwards: Greek Tragedy and its Classification of Mental States
Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2023 Greek tragedies have become synonymous with popular understandings of psychology. Amongst other themes, many of the storylines of these ancient tales centre on the decline and turmoil of their characters’ mental states.
Patrick Guy Browne Johnson
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Studia theodisca, 2019 Based on a philological analysis of the translation of Euripides’ Bacchae by Hölderlin, this paper examines the syntactical and semantic choices made by the translator and aims to investigate the adaptation of the ancient lexicon to his contemporary ...
Maria Arpaia
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