Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Greek Tragedy
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-80207-844-2 (ISBN)
Bridget Martin is an Occasional Lecturer and Tutor in Classics at University College Dublin. She has written several articles on funerary topics and Greek tragedy; this is her first monograph.
Introduction
Chapter 1. A framework: The Homeric and contemporary dead
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Homeric dead
1.3 The contemporary fifth-century dead
1.4 Conclusion
Chapter 2. The tragic dead: The witless and/or the aware
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The scale of awareness
2.2.1 Death is οὐδέν
2.2.2 Egocentric awareness
2.2.3 Family reunion
2.2.4 A (hierarchical) society of the dead
2.2.5 Postmortem rewards and punishments
2.2.6 Prophetic knowledge
2.2.7 The manifest dead
2.3 Conclusion
Chapter 3. The how and the why of interaction: The manifest evidence
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The living interacting with the dead: necromancy
3.2.1 Darius in Aeschylus’ Persians
3.2.2 Teiresias in Aeschylus’ Psychagōgoi
3.2.3 Agamemnon in Aeschylus’ Choephori
3.3 The dead interacting with the living: Dreams
3.3.1 Clytemnestra in Aeschylus’ Eumenides
3.3.2 Polydorus in Euripides’ Hecuba
3.4 Spontaneous interaction: Achilles in Euripides’ Hecuba
3.5 Conclusion
Chapter 4. The living harming the dead: Exposure, mutilation and exclusion
4.1 Introduction
4.2 A concern for the living
4.3 Burial and exposure: extent and limitations
4.3.1 Burial
4.3.2 Exposure and mutilation
4.4 Physical harm in the Underworld
4.5 Exposure before enemies: remembering and dismembering
4.6 Exclusion from/within the Underworld
4.7 Conclusion
Chapter 5. The dead harming the living: Autonomy and agents
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Autonomous revenge from the dead
5.3 Olympian agents
5.4 The Erinyes
5.5 Living agents
5.5.1 Agamemnon in Aeschylus’ Choephori
5.5.2 Achilles in Euripides’ Hecuba
5.6 Conclusion
Conclusion: The Alcestis Effect
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.04.2023 |
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Verlagsort | Liverpool |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80207-844-4 / 1802078444 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80207-844-2 / 9781802078442 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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