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The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Naomi Weiss demonstrates that Euripides' allusions to music-making are not just metatheatrical flourishes or gestures towards musical and religious practices external to the drama but closely interwoven with the dramatic plot. Situating Euripides' experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousike within a broader cultural context, she shows how much of his novelty lies in his reinvention of traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage. If we wish to understand better the trajectories of this most important ancient art form, The Music of Tragedy argues, we must pay closer attention to the role played by both music and text.

Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Music, Greek and Roman --- History and criticism. --- Euripides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- E-books --- Ėvripid --- Yūrībīdīs --- Euripide --- Euripedes --- Eŭripido --- Eurypides --- Euripidesu --- אוריפידס --- エウリーピデース --- Εὐριπίδης --- Greek drama (Tragedy). --- Music, Greek and Roman. --- Euripides. --- ancient art form. --- ancient poetry. --- classic poetry. --- classical greek theater. --- drama. --- dramatic plot. --- dramaturgical effects. --- euripides. --- experimentation. --- imagery. --- meta theatrical flourishes. --- motifs. --- mousike. --- music making. --- music. --- musical language. --- novelty. --- performance. --- religious practices. --- traditional lyrics styles. --- tragic dramas and plays. --- tragic stage.

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This title presents critical issues regarding Greek conceptions of aesthetic response while questioning influential modern notions of the aesthetic.

Poetry, Ancient --- Aesthetics, Classical --- Arts and society --- Music --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Poésie ancienne --- Esthétique antique --- Arts et société --- Musique --- Philosophie ancienne --- Histoire et critique --- Philosophie et esthétique --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Arts --- Arts and sociology --- Society and the arts --- Sociology and the arts --- Classical aesthetics --- Ancient poetry --- Social aspects

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Ancient myths about watery chaos uniquely transcend time and culture to speak to the universal human condition as expression to the hopes, aspirations and fears that have defined-for ancient thinkers as well as modern scientists-what it means to be human in a chaotic world. The Hero and the Sea examines the mythological pattern of heroic battles with watery chaos in the Gilgamesh Epic, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Old Testament, in the light of anthropology, comparative religion, literature, mythology, psychology, and modern chaos theory; how mythic patterns of heroic battle with chaotic adversaries respond to the cultural needs, religious concerns, and worldview of their audience. The last chapter explores points of contact between the ancient mythic patterns and the discoveries of modern scholars engaged in the theoretical study of chaos and chaotics.

Epic poetry --- Poetry, Ancient --- Heroes in literature. --- Sea in literature. --- Heroes in the Bible. --- Sea in the Bible. --- Heroes in literature --- Sea in literature --- Heroes in the Bible --- Sea in the Bible --- Literature - General --- Languages & Literatures --- Ocean in literature --- Ancient poetry --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Bible. --- Be-reshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bereshit (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bytie (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chʻangsegi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Genesis (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Takwīn --- Takwīn (Book of the Old Testament) --- Chʻuraegŭpki (Book of the Old Testament) --- Exodus (Book of the Old Testament) --- Khurūj --- Kitāb-i Shimūt (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shemot --- Sifr al-Khurūj (Book of the Old Testament) --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Shemos