| Description |
1 online resource (x, 209 pages) |
| Series |
Wisconsin studies in classics |
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Wisconsin studies in classics.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Charter Myth for Metoikia -- Spoken Like a Metic -- The Cypriote Stamp -- Sons of Earth -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
This book offers a provocative interpretation of a relatively neglected tragedy, Aeschylus's Suppliant Women. Although the play's subject is a venerable myth, it frames the flight of the daughters of Danaus from Egypt to Greece in starkly contemporary terms, emphasizing the encounter between newcomers and natives. Some scholars read the play as modeling successful social integration, but here, the author argues that the play demonstrates, above all, the difficulties and dangers noncitizens brought to the polis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-191) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Aeschylus. Suppliants -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Suppliants (Aeschylus) fast |
| Subject |
Metics.
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DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Emigration and immigration
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Metics
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Athens (Greece) -- Emigration and immigration
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Greece -- Athens
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012032674 |
| ISBN |
9780299291730 |
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0299291731 |
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