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Euripides' Phoenissae bears one of the richest tragic plots: multiple narrative levels are interwoven by means of various anachronies, focalizers offer different and often challenging points of view, while a complex mythical matrix is deftly employed as the backdrop against which the exploration of the mechanics of tragic narrative takes place. After providing a critical perspective on the ongoing scholarly dialogue regarding narratology and drama, this book uses the former as a working tool for the study and interpretation of the latter. The Phoenissae is approached as a coherent narrative unit and issues like the use of myth, narrators, intertext, time and space are discussed in detail. It is within these contexts that the play is seen as a Theban mythical 'thesaurus' both exploring previous mythical ramifications and making new additions. The result is rewarding: Euripides constructs a handbook of the Theban saga that was informative for those mythically untrained, fascinating for those theatrically demanding, but also dexterously open upon each one's reception.

Narration (Rhetoric) --- Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) in literature. --- Polyneices (Greek mythology) --- Eteocles (Greek mythology) --- Euripides. --- Thebes (Greece) --- In literature. --- Eteocles (Greek mythology). --- Euripides. Phoenician women. --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Polyneices (Greek mythology). --- Thebes (Greece) -- In literature. --- Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology) in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Thēvai (Greece) --- Thívai (Greece) --- Thebes (Greece : Ancient city) --- Thiva (Greece) --- Thēva (Greece) --- Tebe (Greece) --- Theben (Greece) --- Thebes (Greece : Extinct city) --- Θῆβαι (Greece) --- Thēbai (Greece) --- Θήβα (Greece) --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Polynices --- Eteocles, --- Étéocle, --- Eteoklēs, --- Eteoklo, --- 厄忒俄克勒斯, --- Етеокл, --- Етеокле, --- Этеокл, --- エテオクレース, --- אטאוקלס --- 에테오클레스, --- اتئوکلس --- Ἐτεοκλῆς, --- Polineikes --- Polinice --- Polinices --- Polinik --- Poliniko --- Polinizes --- Polyneices --- Polyneikēs --- Polynice --- Polynikes --- Полінік --- ポリュネイケース --- פוליניקס --- 폴리네이케스 --- Полиник --- Палінік --- Πολυνείκης --- Greek Tragedy. --- Interpretation. --- Narratology. --- Phoenissae.