Achilles in Greek Tragedy

Informationen zum Autor Pantelis Michelakis is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford. Zusammenfassung This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology! and a key character in the Homeric epics! was imagined on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Dr Michelakis argues that dramatists persistently appropriated Achilles to address concerns of their time. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Achilles in the fifth century; 2. The problematic hero: Aeschylus' Myrmidons; 3. The dead hero: Euripides' Hecuba; 4. The hero to be: Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis; 5. Mapping the heroic absence: Achilles in other plays; 6. Afterword; Bibliography; General index; Index of passages.

Product details

• Authors: Pantelis Michelakis, Pantelis (University of Oxford) Michelakis, Michelakis Pantelis
• Assisted by: P. E. Easterling (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.09.2002
• EAN: 9780521818438
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81843-8
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics