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Den Mythos davon, dass Orestes und Elektra für ihren getöteten Vater Agamemnon Rache nehmen und seine Mörderin, ihre eigene Mutter Klytaimestra, umbringen, haben die drei berühmtesten attischen Tragiker – Aischylos, Sophokles und Euripides – auf die Bühne gebracht. Sophokles konzentriert sich in seinem Stück vor allem auf das Leid der isoliert bei ihrer verhassten Mutter lebenden Elektra. Seine Tragödie hat besonders seit dem 19. Jahrhundert zahlreiche moderne Dramatiker (wie etwa Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Eugene O’Neill, Jean Giraudoux oder Jean-Paul Sartre) zu Neufassungen inspiriert. Der vorliegende Kommentar erschließt den Text für moderne Leser. Er legt besonderes Gewicht darauf, die Wirkung des Bühnengeschehens auf den Zuschauer sowie die Bezüge zur modernen Rezeption des Textes zu erläutern. The mythical story of Orestes’s and Electra’s act of vengeance against their mother, Clytemnestra, was developed by Sophocles as well as Aeschylus and Euripides. In his tragedy, Sophocles focused on the suffering of Electra, living in isolation with her hated mother. This commentary places particular emphasis on the impact of the play’s events on the audience and references to the modern reception of the text.

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The main problem facing critics of Sophokles' Elektra has always been understanding the presentation of the vengeance and the nature of justice it represents. This volume addresses the ethical issues of this play through an analysis of the language and argumentation which the characters use to explain and justify their behaviour. The focus is on the examination of the themes of aidôs and dolos , and the way in which each contributes to our overall understanding of the vengeance as an act which, for all its justice, remains shameful. By exploring the union between these two contradictory elements, this study exposes the ethical complexity of Sophokles' treatment of the vengeance theme. Dolos andamp; Dikê contains a useful critique of recent interpretative approaches to the play, a full bibliography, and a complete index of passages cited.

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The Gorgon's Severed Head looks at three plays of Euripides, one early, one middle and one late in his career. Innovations in genre, in the use of the traditional stories, in the representation of women and of gender issues are present at every period. In all three plays characters are depicted creating themselves and each other. Chapter One on Alcestis looks at the artistry of the two main characters and is especially concerned with finding a role for Admetus, the play's most serious problem. The second chapter treats the physical displacement of the myth in Euripides' version of the Electra-Orestes story. A last section approaches the layers of time and space in Phoenissae .

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