Overview

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Euripides provides a comprehensive account of the influence and appropriation of all extant Euripidean plays since their inception: from antiquity to modernity, across cultures and civilizations, from multiple perspectives and within a broad range of human experience and cultural trends, namely literature, intellectual history, visual arts, music, opera and dance, stage and cinematography. A concerted work by an international team of specialists in the field, the volume is addressed to a wide and multidisciplinary readership of classical reception studies, from experts to non-experts. Contributors engage in a vividly and lively interactive dialogue with the Ancient and the Modern which, while illuminating aspects of ancient drama and highlighting their ever-lasting relevance, offers a thoughtful and layered guide of the human condition.

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Author:   Rosanna Lauriola ,  Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.166kg
ISBN:  

9789004249370

ISBN 10:   9004249370
Pages:   18
Publication Date:   17 September 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: The Life of Euripides Elizabeth W. Scharffenberger PART 1 - The Tragedies of War and Its Aftermath: The Trojan Cycle 1 Iphigenia at Aulis Mary-Kay Gamel 2 Trojan Women Rosanna Lauriola 3 Hecuba Eric Dugdale 4 Andromache James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard 5 Helen Maria de Fátima Silva PART 2 - Cursed Royal Families: The Mycenaean and Theban Cycle 6 Electra Cecelia E. Luschnig 7 Orestes Cecelia E. Luschnig 8 Iphigenia in Tauris Sophie Mills 9 Phoenician Women Elizabeth W. Scharffenberger 10 Suppliant Women Rosanna Lauriola PART 3 - The ‘Fatal’ Power of Love 11 Alcestis Hanna M. Roisman 12 Medea Rosanna Lauriola 13 Hippolytus Rosanna Lauriola PART 4 - Questioning Gods and Religion 14 Bacchant Women Simon Perris 15 An Appendix: Ion: A Quest Karelisa V. Hartigan PART 5 - The Tragic Side of Heracles’ Life 16 Heracles Rosie Wyles 17 The Children of Heracles (Heraclidae) Rosie Wyles PART 6 - Beyond Tragedy: A Satyr Drama 18 Cyclops Simone Beta Appendix: List of Modern Adaptations Index Locorum Index of Subjects

Reviews

This collection is a wonderful volume, because it presents a complex approach, studying the reception of Sophoclean plays up until recent years. The book is useful for researchers, interested in a specific topic, but it is particularly useful for beginners, because all the papers analyse their materials, sources and adaptations exhaustively, without omitting arguments and ideas that are essential. Sonia Francisetti Brolin, eisodos - Zeitschrift fur Literatur und Theorie, 2018 (2) Herbst.

Author Information

Rosanna Lauriola, Ph. D. (2002) University of Firenze, is currently Instructor at Randolph-Macon College (USA). She has published a monograph on Aristophanes, translations with commentary on Sophocles', Oedipus Rex and Aristophanes’ Acharnians, as well as articles on Hesiod, Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and classical reception. Kyriakos Demetriou is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Cyprus. He is the editor of Polis, the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, and author and editor of several articles and books on classical reception. Contributors are: Simone Beta, James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, Eric Dugdale, Mary-Kay Gamel, Karelisa Hartigan, Rosanna Lauriola, Cecelia Luschnig, Sophie Mills, Simon Perris, Hanna Roisman, Elizabeth Scharffenberger, Maria De Fatima Silva and Rosie Wyles.

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