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The text used for this edition of Euripides' Hecuba is based on the editor's own manuscript studies; a prose translation, introduction and detailed commentary are provided. The introduction and the commentary treat the structure of the play and its parts, the interpretation of it, and also problems of staging it; they also give historical and factual information. They are written in such a way that they can also be used by readers without a knowledge of Greek. Troja ist gefallen, alle Männer erschlagen und ihre Frauen auf dem Weg in die Sklaverei. Polyxene, Tochter der Königin Hekabe, wird auf dem Grab des Achilleus geopfert, nachdem ihre Mutter vergeblich versucht hat, ihr Leben zu retten. Polydoros, jüngster Sohn des Königs Priamos, war von den Eltern mit einem Goldschatz bei dem Thrakerkönig Polymestor in Sicherheit gebracht worden, doch nach dem Fall der Stadt tötete der König das Kind und eignete sich das Gold an. Als die leidgeprüfte Hekabe dies erfährt, lockt sie ihn zu sich, blendet ihn und tötet seine beiden Söhne. Das Menschenopfer, die grausame Blutrache und die Düsterkeit der hier dargestellten Welt, aus der sich die Götter anscheinend zurückgezogen haben, mögen den modernen Zuschauer und Leser befremden. Man kann aber zu einem historisch angemesseneren Verständnis dieses "schwärzesten Stückes des Euripides" gelangen, wenn man versucht, es mit den Augen der Zeitgenossen zu sehen.

Hecuba (Legendary character) --- Trojan War --- Euripides. --- Hecuba, --- Ecuba, --- Hecabe, --- Hécube, --- Hekaba, --- Hekabē, --- Hekabo, --- Hekuba, --- 赫库芭, --- ヘカベー, --- הקובה, --- 헤카베, --- Гекаба, --- Гекуба, --- Хекаба, --- Хекуба, --- هکابه, --- هيكوبا, --- Ἑκάβη, --- Euripides - Hecuba --- Hecuba - Queen of Sparta

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Helen --- of Troy --- Queen of Sparta --- Drama --- Hecuba --- Queen of Troy

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Medea --- consort of Aegeus --- King of Athens (Mythological character) --- Drama --- Seneca --- Lucius Annaeus --- approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. --- Translations into English --- Hecuba --- Queen of Troy

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Political theology is a distinctly modern problem, one that takes shape in some of the most important theoretical writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. But its origins stem from the early modern period, in medieval iconographies of sacred kinship and the critique of traditional sovereignty mounted by Hobbes and Spinoza. In this book, Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard Lupton assemble established and emerging scholars in early modern studies to examine the role played by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and thought in modern conceptions of political theology. Political Theology and Early Modernity explores texts by Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Milton, and others that have served as points of departure for such thinkers as Schmitt, Strauss, Benjamin, and Arendt. Written from a spectrum of positions ranging from renewed defenses of secularism to attempts to reconceive the religious character of collective life and literary experience, these essays probe moments of productive conflict, disavowal, and entanglement in politics and religion as they pass between early modern and modern scenes of thought. This stimulating collection is the first to answer not only how Renaissance and baroque literature help explain the persistence of political theology in modernity and postmodernity, but also how the reemergence of political theology as an intellectual and political problem deepens our understanding of the early modern period.

Political theology --- History. --- Historiography. --- political theology, modernity, medieval, iconography, kinship, sacred, holiness, divinity, sovereignty, hobbes, spinoza, shakespeare, machiavelli, milton, schmitt, strauss, benjamin, arendt, secularism, religion, philosophy, christianity, spirituality, nonfiction, collectivism, community, society, politics, history, renaissance, baroque, literature, postmodernity, hamlet or hecuba, corpus mysticum, judaism, kantorowicz, islam, justice, violence, war, marriage, gender, queen elizabeth.

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Abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state--all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling cases, The Law Is a White Dog tackles key societal questions: How does the law construct our identities? How do its rules and sanctions make or unmake persons? And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons? Reading the language, allusions, and symbols of legal discourse, and bridging distinctions between the human and nonhuman, Colin Dayan looks at how the law disfigures individuals and animals, and how slavery, punishment, and torture create unforeseen effects in our daily lives. Moving seamlessly across genres and disciplines, Dayan considers legal practices and spiritual beliefs from medieval England, the North American colonies, and the Caribbean that have survived in our legal discourse, and she explores the civil deaths of felons and slaves through lawful repression. Tracing the legacy of slavery in the United States in the structures of the contemporary American prison system and in the administrative detention of ghostly supermax facilities, she also demonstrates how contemporary jurisprudence regarding cruel and unusual punishment prepared the way for abuses in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Using conventional historical and legal sources to answer unconventional questions, The Law Is a White Dog illuminates stark truths about civil society's ability to marginalize, exclude, and dehumanize.

Law --- Civil rights --- Torture --- Slavery --- Persons (Law) --- Law of persons --- Personality (Law) --- Status (Law) --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Social aspects. --- Law and legislation --- American prison system. --- Constitution. --- Hecuba. --- Herman Melville. --- Judeo-Christian. --- animal treatment. --- animals. --- appellate cases. --- banishment. --- chattels. --- civil death. --- civil existence. --- civil ghost. --- degradation. --- deprivation. --- dignity. --- dogs. --- domesticated animals. --- felon. --- felons. --- genocide. --- ghosts. --- human chattels. --- human empathy. --- human rights. --- illegal practices. --- incarceration. --- inferiority. --- juridical diminution. --- larceny. --- lawful repression. --- legal boundaries. --- legal protections. --- legal rituals. --- legality. --- modern law. --- modernity. --- negative personhood. --- personal identity. --- personal rights. --- post-Magna Carta. --- property. --- punishment. --- punishments. --- religious fictions. --- restitution. --- servitude. --- slave law. --- slave. --- slavery. --- slaves. --- social death. --- social marginalization. --- spectral emanations. --- supermax penitentiary. --- taxonomies. --- torture. --- untamed animals. --- war on terror. --- wills.