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Euripides's revolution under cover : an essay
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- Creator
- Pietro Pucci
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016
- Physical Details
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- vi, 235 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781501704048, 9781501704055, 1501700618, 1501704052, 1501704044, 9781501700613
- OCLC
- ocn951625856, ocn979625022, ocn951977852, ocn921926760
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Introduction : Euripides's poetic game and law of composition -- Anthropomorphism -- The protection of the self and the role of sophia -- Some connotations of sophia -- Polyneikes' truth -- Hecuba's rhetoric -- Eros in Euripides's poetics : sex as the cause of the Trojan War -- The lewd gaze of the eye -- The power of love : who is Aphrodite? -- Phaedra -- Hermione : the Andromache -- Female victims of war : The Troades -- Survival in poetry -- Figures of metalepsis : the invention of literature -- The failure of politics in Euripides's poetics : politics in Suppliant women -- Political philosophy : a universal program of peace and progress -- How to deliberate a war -- Democracy and monarchy -- The battle -- The rescue of the corpses -- Return to arms -- The polis's loss of control and authority -- The Bacchants' gospel and the Greek city -- Pentheus and Tiresias -- Dionysus' revenge : first round -- Revenge prepares its murderous weapons -- Initiation and sacrifice -- Victory and defeat -- Euripides's poetry