Wisdom and folly in Euripides /
"The volume throws fresh light on a major polarity in Euripidean drama, including its roots in the tradition and its reception in vase-painting and literature. Virtually all Euripidean characters are subject to folly and claim some measure of wisdom. Leading international scholars discuss the p...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2016]
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| Series: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
v. 31. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: General. Luigi Battezzato: Euripides the antiquarian
- Martin Hose: Euripides-poet of irritations
- G.O. Hutchinson: Gods wise and foolish: Euripides and greek literature from Homer to Plutarch
- Maria Serena Mirto: "Rightly does Aphrodite's name begin with aphrosune": Gods and men in wisdom and folly
- Ruth Scodel: Wisdom from slaves
- Part II: Individual plays. Laura McClure: Hearth and home in Euripides' Alcestis
- John Gibert: The wisdom of Jason
- Justina Gregory: The education of Hippolytus
- Poulheria Kyriakou: Wisdom, nobility, and families in Andromache
- Katerina Synodinou: Wisdom through experience: Theseus and Adrastus in Euripides' Suppliant Women
- Andrea Rodighiero: "Sail with your fortune": wisdom and defeat in Euripides' Trojan Women
- Matthew Wright: The significance of numbers in Trojan Women
- Andreas Markantonatos: The Delphic school of government: Apollonian wisdom and Athenian folly in Euripides' Ion
- David Konstan: Did Orestes have a conscience? another look at Sunesis in Euripides' Orestes
- Anna Lamari: Madness narrative in Euripides' Bacchae
- Seth L. Schein: The language of wisdom in Sophokles' Philoktetes and Euripides' Bacchae
- Bernd Seidensticker: The figure of Teiresias in Euripides' Bacchae
- Davide Susanetti: The Bacchae: manipulation and destruction
- P. J. Finglass: Mistaken identity in Euripides' Ino
- Part III: Reception. David Sansone: Whatever happened to Euripides' Lekythion (Frogs 1198-1247)?
- Thalia Papadopoulou: Euripidean frenzy goes to Rome: the case of Roman comedy and novel
- Barbara Goff: The leopard-skin of Heracles: traditional wisdom and untraditional madness in a Ghanaian Alcestis
- Michalis Tiverios: New evidence for Euripides' (?) Alkmene: another look at a South Italian vase-painting
- List of contributors
- Publications by Daniel Iakov.