(P/B) MYTH AND TRAGEDY IN ANCIENT GREECE

Παρουσίαση

Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly nonclassical reading of Greek tragedy that insists on its radical discontinuity with our own outlook and with our social, aesthetic, and psychological categories. Originally published in French in two volumes, this new single-volume edition includes revised essays from Volume I as well as the first English translation of Volume II. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Preface to Volume I
Preface to Volume II
I. The Historical Moment of Tragedy in Greece: Some of the Social and Psychological Conditions
II. Tensions and Ambiguities in Greek Tragedy
III. Intimations of the Will in Greek Tragedy
IV. Oedipus Without the Complex
V. Ambiguity and Reversal: On the Enigmatic Structure of Oedipus Rex
VI. Hunting and Sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia
VII. Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Ephebeia
VIII. The God of Tragic Fiction
IX. Matures of the Mask in Ancient Greece
X. The Lame Tyrant: From Oedipus to Periander
XI. The Tragic Subject: Historicity and Transhistoricity
XII. Aeschylus, the Past and the Present
XIII. The Shields of the Heroes
XIV. Oedipus in Athens
XV. Oedipus Between Two Cities: An Essay on Oedipus at Colonus
XVI. Oedipus in Vicenza and in Paris
XVII. The Masked Dionysus of Euripides' Bacchae
Notes
Subject Index
Index of Textual References