Retrospective Muse - Pathways Through Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

"A collection of the author's previously published essays, inquiries into gender, cult, the city, erotics, and the role of the visual"--

List of contents

Introduction

Part 1:: Erotics, Myth, Gender

1. Eros Tyrannos

2. Configurations of Rape in Greek Myth

3. Religion and Erotics in the Ancient Novel

4. Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and theImaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius

Part II: Encounters with the Divine

5. Apollo and Dionysus: Starting from Birth

6. Cultic Models of the Female: Rites of Dionysus and Demeter

7. Sacrifices Holy and Unholy in Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris

Part III: Urban Mythographies Cities on Stage

8. Staging Dionysus Between Thebes and Athens

9. Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven Against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy in Argos

10. Troy and Tragedy: The Conscience of Hellas

11. Aristophanes: The Performance of Utopia in the Ecclesiazousae

Part IV: Reception: Later Echoes

12. Radical Theater: Richard Schechner's Dionysus in 69

About the author

Froma I. Zeitlin. foreword by Simon Goldhill

Product details

• Authors: Froma I. Zeitlin
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2023
• EAN: 9781501772962
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-7296-2
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Myth and Poetics II
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies