Adventures With Iphigenia in Tauris - A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy

Zusatztext [we are] delighted to award the Goodwin Prize to Edith Hall, in honor of Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris: A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy, with its promise of a present and future for the inescapable, and inescapably intrepid, classical past. Informationen zum Autor Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College London. Klappentext Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris provides a rich narrative of the cultural history and influence of an oft-overlooked Euripidean tragedy Zusammenfassung Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris provides a rich narrative of the cultural history and influence of an oft-overlooked Euripidean tragedy Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Map 1: Iphigenia's Adventures 400 BCE to 500 CE Map 2: Iphigenia's Adventures since Dante Timeline Preface: The Play, its Myth, and the Date of its First Production Chapter I:Rediscovering Tauris Chapter II: Iphigenia, Quest Heroine Chapter III: Travel Tragedy Chapter IV: Plots and Pots Chapter V: Orestes, Pylades, and Roman Men Chapter VI: Imperial Escapades Chapter VII: Escorts of Artemis Chapter VIII: Iphigenia's Christian Conversion Chapter IX: Gluck's Iphigénie in Pain Chapter X: Goethe's Iphigenie between Germany and the World Chapter XI: Rites of Modernism Chapter XII: Women's Adventures with Iphigenia Chapter XIII: Decolonising Thoas Abbreviations and Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Edith Hall
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2012
• EAN: 9780195392890
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539289-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture; Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture; Onassis Series in Hellenic Cul; Onassis Hellenic Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, RELIGION / Ancient, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek religion & mythology, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights