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Author Markantonatos, Andreas, author

Title Euripides' Alcestis : narrative, myth, and religion / Andreas Markantonatos
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (223 pages)
Series Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ; Band 112
Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ; Bd. 112
Contents Narrative, myth, and religion: Introduction -- Tragic storytelling: form and content -- Tragic worlds: narrating the Athenian polis -- Euripides' Alcestis: narrative and interpretation -- Narrative: Introduction -- Death is death is death: narrating a world of perennial suffering -- Myth: Introduction -- Mythological intertextuality: Alcestis and Heracles -- Prophecy, theory, action: the making of a hero -- Religion: Introduction -- Death is death is life: Eleusinian Orphism and moral courage -- Death is death is life: Alcestis, Athens, and mystical salvation
Summary This unique volume is an accessible yet in-depth narratological study of Euripides' Alcestis. It contextualizes the play in terms of its reception by the original audience, locating the intricate narrative tropes of the plot in the dynamics of fifth-century Athenian mythology and religion. It will reward readers interested in Greek literature and especially Euripidean tragedy, as well as in modern literary theory and especially narratology
Analysis Euripides
Greek tragedy
narratology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Euripides. Alcestis.
SUBJECT Alcestis (Euripides) fast
Subject DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Religion
Erzähltechnik
Greece -- Religion.
Greece
Genre/Form Electronic books
Drama
Form Electronic book
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