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Mythology, Greek, in literature --- Tragedy --- Didactic drama, Greek --- -Greek didactic drama --- Greek drama --- Drama --- History and criticism --- Aeschylus --- Eskhil --- Eschylus --- Aischylos --- Esquilo --- Eschilo --- Aiskhilos --- Eshil --- Æskílos --- Ajschylos --- Eschil --- Eschyle --- Äschylos --- Eskili --- Aiszkhülosz --- Eschylos --- Iskilos --- Эсхил --- אייסכילוס --- איסכילאס --- איסכילוס --- إيسخولوس --- ايسخيلوس --- Αἰσχύλος --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Tragedy. --- History and criticism. --- -History and criticism --- -Drama --- Greek didactic drama

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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.

Didactic drama, Greek --- Irony in literature --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- Ritual in literature --- Sacrifice in literature --- Tragedy --- 875 EURIPIDES --- Drama --- Greek didactic drama --- Greek drama --- 875 EURIPIDES Griekse literatuur--EURIPIDES --- Griekse literatuur--EURIPIDES --- History and criticism --- Euripides --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tragedy. --- Irony in literature. --- Ritual in literature. --- Sacrifice in literature. --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval

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Didactic drama, Greek --- Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature --- Polemics --- Théâtre didactique grec --- Hecube (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature --- Polémique --- Polemics. --- -Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature --- -Polemics --- Greek didactic drama --- -Greek didactic drama --- Théâtre didactique grec --- Hecube (Personnage légendaire) dans la littérature --- Polémique --- Tragedy --- Trojan War --- Women and literature --- Drama --- Propaganda --- Public opinion --- Greek drama --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- Euripides. --- Euripides --- Political and social views. --- Hecuba (Legendary character) in literature. --- Tragedy. --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Tragédie --- Guerre de Troie --- Femmes et littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature et guerre --- Political and social views --- Pensée politique et sociale --- Euripide --- Didactic drama, Greek - History and criticism. --- Women and literature - Greece. --- Trojan War - Literature and the war. --- Euripide (0480-0406 av. J.-C.) --- Euripide (0480-0406 av. J.-C.). Les Troyennes --- Femmes --- Théâtre didactique --- Et la guerre --- Dans la littérature --- Littérature et guerre --- Grèce

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This book is a detailed study of the plays of Sophocles through examination of a single ethical principle. Sophocles has traditionally been considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians, but Professor Whitlock Blundell offers an important new examination of the ethical content of the plays by focusing primarily on the traditional Greek popular moral code of 'helping friends and harming enemies'. Five of the extant plays are discussed in detail both from a dramatic and an ethical standpoint, and the author concludes that ethical themes are not only integral to each drama, but are subjected to an implicit critique through the tragical consequences to which they give rise. Greek scholars and students of Greek drama and Greek thought will welcome this book, which is presented in such a way as to be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike. No knowledge of Greek is required.

General ethics --- Sophocles --- Ethiek in de literatuur --- Ethique dans la littérature --- Didactic drama, Greece --- -Ethics, Ancient --- Ethics, Ancient, in literature --- Ethics, Ancient, in literature. --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- Ethics, Ancient --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- 875 SOPHOCLES --- Ancient ethics --- 875 SOPHOCLES Griekse literatuur--SOPHOCLES --- Griekse literatuur--SOPHOCLES --- History and criticism --- Sofokles --- Sophocle --- Sofocle --- Sophokles --- Sofocles --- Ethics. --- Ethics, Ancient. --- History and criticism. --- Ethics --- Ethics in literature --- Greece --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Didactic drama, Greek --- Greek didactic drama --- Greek drama --- Sófocles --- Sofoklis --- Sophoclis --- Sofokl --- Sūfūklīs --- Sūtmūklīs --- Sofokŭl --- סופוקלס --- سوفوكليس --- Σοφοκλῆς