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Author Allen-Hornblower, Emily, author

Title From agent to spectator : witnessing the aftermath in ancient Greek epic and tragedy / Emily Allen-Hornblower
Published Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 336 pages)
Series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; v. 30
Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes
Contents Preface ; Contents ; Introduction ; The powerless spectator: Witnessing the limits of the human condition ; Voicing their vision: Emotional response and character ; Time, knowledge, and power ; Narrative in tragedy, tragedy as narrative ; Perceptions and values ; Chapter Outline
Chapter One: The Helpless Witness: Achilles, Patroclus, and the Portrayal of Vulnerability in the Iliad Methodology ; Watching through the eyes of philoi ; Seeing and pitying ; Helpless spectators, mortal and immortal ; Zeus's helplessness: Regarding the death of Sarpedon
Looking on from the walls of Troy: The death of Hector The Death of Patroclus ; No witness, no pity? ; You, Patroclus ; Calling out to the threatened warrior: The Patrocleia and Patroclus's doom ; Apostrophes and turning points: danger or death ; The downfall of Patroclus
Negativity and absence Apostrophes and the poetics of helplessness ; Absence and presence: The Voice of the Helpless Spectator ; Achilles' delayed vision ; Mortal Achilles ; Chapter Two: Spectatorship, Agency, and Alienation in Sophocles' Trachiniae ; Watching through Deianeira's eyes
Pity and Vulnerability From spectator to agent: Playing Aphrodite ; Watching Deianeira watch Heracles burn ; The divine agent and spectator: Cypris ; Watching Deianeira die ; Watching Heracles die ; The silence of Heracles ; Divine agents and spectators
Summary "We tend to associate the act of witnessing with bystanders who have not played an active role in the events that they are watching. The present monograph considers characters from Homer's Iliad and Greek tragedy that are looking on and reacting (in word, deed, or both) to their own actions. It closely examines those scenes in which they are put in the position of a spectator, witnessing the aftermath of their deed(s)"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Chapter Three: From Murderer to Messenger: Body, Speech, and Justice in Greek Tragedy
In English
Description based on print version record
Subject Homer. Iliad.
Homer -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Homer fast
Iliad (Homer) fast
Subject Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
Spectators in literature.
Witnesses in literature.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Greece.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature
Epic poetry, Greek
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Spectators in literature
Witnesses in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016009244
ISBN 9783110430059
3110430053
9783110430042
3110430045
9783110430097
3110430096
3110578182
9783110578188