Euripides : Children of Heracles
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書誌事項
Euripides : Children of Heracles
（Bloomsbury companions to Greek and Roman tragedy / series editor, Thomas Harrison）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, c2020
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注記
FIrst published in hardback, 2020
Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-155) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play's moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic.
Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play's original performance and its political resonance both then and now.
目次
List of figures
Preface
Chapter 1: Action and expectation
Chapter 2: Summing the parts
Chapter 3: Heracles and other imagined figures
Chapter 4: The power of the weak
Chapter 5: Then and now
Appendix: Fragments
Selected chronology
Guide to Further Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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