Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy

In Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy, Jonah Radding contends that political issues addressed in Euripides¿s tragedies are inextricably related to his use of choral lyric genres such as paean and epinician, and to his engagement with canonical texts such as the Iliad and Aeschylus¿s Agamemnon. Poetry and politics each illuminate the other.

Info autore

Jonah Radding is Assistant Instructional Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Chicago.

Riassunto

In Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy, Jonah Radding contends that political issues addressed in Euripides’s tragedies are inextricably related to his use of choral lyric genres such as paean and epinician, and to his engagement with canonical texts such as the Iliad and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon. Poetry and politics each illuminate the other.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: José Esparza Chong Cuy, Jonah Radding
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9780674278530
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27853-0
• Pagine: 236
• Serie: Hellenic Studies; Hellenic Studies Series
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary