Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Classical Greek literature --- Drama --- Greek drama --- Theater --- Athens (Greece) --- History and criticism --- History --- Social life and customs --- History and criticism. --- Social life and customs. --- Greek drama - History and criticism --- Theater - Greece - Athens - History - To 500 --- Athens (Greece) - Social life and customs

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism are some of the images used by Athenian tragedians to define the non-Greek, "barbarian" world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their singular fascination with barbarians. Edith Hall sets the Greek plays against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars, and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy and slavery. Analyzed within the context of contemporary anthropology and political philosophy, Hall reveals how the poets conceptualized the barbarian as the negative embodiment of Athenian civic ideals. She compares the treatment of foreigners in Homer and in tragedy, showing that the new dimension which the idea of the barbarian had brought to the tragic theater radically affected the poets' interpretation of myth and their evocation of the distant past, as well as enriching their reportoire of aural and visual effects. Hall argues that the invented barbarian of the tragic stage was a powerful cultural expression of Greek xenophobia and chauvinism that, paradoxically, produced and outburst of creative energy and literary innovation.

Aliens in literature --- Caractéristiques nationales dans la littérature --- Ethnocentrism in literature --- Ethnocentrisme dans la littérature --- Etnocentrisme in de literatuur --- Etrangers dans la littérature --- National characteristics in literature --- Primitivism in literature --- Primitivisme dans la literature --- Primitiviteit in de literatuur --- Volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Vreemdelingen in de literatuur --- -National characteristics in literature --- Aliens in literature. --- Ethnocentrism in literature. --- National characteristics in literature. --- Primitivism in literature. --- Ethnic groups in literature. --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- History and criticism. --- Ethnic groups in literature --- History and criticism --- Illegal aliens in literature --- Tragedie grecque --- Barbares --- Themes, motifs

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Greek drama (Tragedy) --- History and criticism --- Aliens in literature

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)