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Rijksbaron, A. Grammatical Observations on Euripides’ Bacchae. 1990 ‘No other play of Euripides has been so much discussed as the Bacchae; very few have been the subject of such exact and careful study on the linguistic side’. Thus opens the preface to the first edition of Dodds' commentary. One might subscribe to these words nowadays even more readily than at their original date of publication (1944), if only because Dodds himself has added considerably to our understanding of the play. Nevertheless, as Dr Rijksbaron argues in this commentary-like book, the linguistic side may be due for a reappraisal. This reappraisal does not so much consist in applying the latest insights of general and Greek linguistics, but rather in making use of the impressive grammatical apparatus which is at the disposal of classical philologists, but whose value is not always fully acknowledged, as the commentaries on the Bacchae show. ASCP 1 (1990), 227 p. Cloth. - 32.00 EURO, ISBN: 9050630413

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Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae.Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of these plays confronts directly the difficulty of making an archaic poetic tradition relevant to a democratic society. She explores the important mediating role played by choral poetry and ritual in the plays, asserting that Euripides' sacrificial metaphors and ritual performances link an anachronistic mythic ideal with a world dominated by "chance" or an incomprehensible divinity. Foley utilizes the ideas and methodology of contemporary literary theory and symbolic anthropology, addressing issues central to the emerging dialogue between the two fields. Her conclusions have important implications for the study of Greek tragedy as a whole and for our understanding of Euripides' tragic irony, his conception of religion, and the role of his choral odes.Assuming no specialized knowledge, Ritual Irony is aimed at all readers of Euripidean tragedy. It will prove particularly valuable to students and scholars of classics, comparative literature, and symbolic anthropology.

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Sex in literature --- Women in literature --- Sexualite dans la litterature --- Femmes dans la litterature --- Euripides --- Characters --- Women --- Political and social views --- Personnages --- Femmes --- Pensee politique et sociale --- Seksualiteit in de literatuur --- Sexe dans la littérature --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- 875 EURIPIDES --- -Mythology, Greek, in literature --- Griekse literatuur--EURIPIDES --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- 875 EURIPIDES Griekse literatuur--EURIPIDES --- -Euripides --- Euripide --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- Tragedy --- Women and literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Drama --- Women. --- Sex in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Women in literature. --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Pensée politique et sociale --- Political and social views.

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The work is limited to the question of knowledge in Euripides' Hippolytus and seeks to show that one of the major themes of the Hippolytus , as of the Oedipus , is knowledge. In successive chapters these subjects are treated: (1) the witness theme, seeing and knowing, what the senses reveal; (2) fantasies of other worlds created by the characters and how these fantasies reavel the character's perceptions of the world; (3) how Euripides causes his characters to become aware of the shifting meanings of words and how it happens that one statement and its opposite can be predicated of the same individual or act; (4) the desire for and fear of knowledge and the choice of ignorance; (5) the use of generalization as a kind of ignorance; (6) the relation of the character's knowledge to that of the audience. The work offers a new perception of the drama through a detailed examination of this important question that was so warmly debated among the early Sophists.

Drama --- Euripides --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Hippolytus (Greek mythology) in literature --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature --- Tragédie grecque --- Hippolyte (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Théorie de la connaissance en littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Euripides. --- Hippolytus (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. --- 875 EURIPIDES --- Griekse literatuur--EURIPIDES --- 875 EURIPIDES Griekse literatuur--EURIPIDES --- Euripide --- Tragédie grecque --- Hippolyte (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Théorie de la connaissance en littérature --- Kennisleer / in de letterkunde. --- Euripide. Hippolyte. --- Connaissance (Théorie de la) / dans la littérature. --- Euripides. Hyppolytus. --- Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Hippolytus --- Hipòlit --- Hipolitas --- Hipólito --- Hippolütosz --- Hippolyte --- Hippolytos --- Ippolito --- Ippolitu --- Hippolytus (Euripides) --- Hippolytos (Euripides) --- Euripidou Hippolytos (Euripides) --- Crowned Hippolytus (Euripides) --- Hippolytos stephanēphoros (Euripides)