Studies in Greek Literature: Volume 1, Greek Tragedy

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-009-50105-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 630 Seiten

Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, they put forward tersely considered arguments that have the weight of much longer discussions. Exacting attention to language and detail combines with clear-sighted openness to new developments within and beyond the discipline to allow the texts to speak in deeply human terms. This collection gathers significant articles from all stages of Easterling's career, many of them major points of reference. Volume 1 is devoted to Greek tragedy, and represents in particular her great affinity for Sophocles. Volume 2 presents work on other Greek literature, acting, transmission, scholia, reception, history of scholarship. Reflecting Easterling's extensive academic ties, several of the articles were originally published in less well-known volumes and are here made more widely available.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Easterling, P E

Weitere Mitwirkende

Budelmann, Felix

Krummen, Eveline

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; List of illustrations; Bibliography of Pat Easterling; Introduction; Part I. Characters and Roles in Greek Tragedy: 1. Presentation of character in Aeschylus; 2. Character in sophocles; 3. Constructing character in Greek tragedy; 4. Reading minds in Greek tragedy (with Felix Budelmann); 5. Kings in Greek tragedy; 6. Women in tragic space; 7.Gods on stage in Greek tragedy; 8. Some tragic newsbringers; Part II. Present and Past in Greek Tragedy: 9. The tragic homer; 10. The image of the polis in Greek tragedy; 11. Anachronism in Greek tragedy; 12. Constructing the heroic; 13. Euripides in the theatre; 14. Narrative on the Greek tragic stage; 15. Authority without a name: a note on traditional wisdom in Greek tragedy; 16. Ancient plays for modern minds; Part III. Religion and Ritual in Greek Tragedy: 16. Tragedy and ritual; 17. Weeping, witnessing, and the tragic audience; 18. Now and forever in Greek drama and ritual; 19. Greek tragedy and the ethics of revenge; Part IV. Language and Narrative in Greek Tragedy: 20. Repetition in Sophocles; 21. Plain words in Sophocles; 22. Naming and not naming in Sophocles; Part V. Reperformance and New Plays: 23. The end of an era? Tragedy in the early fourth century; 24. Euripides outside Athens: a speculative note; Part VI. Individual Tragedies: 25. The second Stasimon of Antigone; 26. Sophocles, Trachiniae; 27. The end of the Trachiniae; 28. Philoctetes and modern criticism; 29. Oedipus and Polynices; 30. Oedipus at Colonus: characters and reception (translated by Fiona Macintosh); 31. The language of the Polis in Oedipus at Colonus; 32. The death of Oedipus and what happened next; 33. Sophoclean journeys; 34. Getting to grips with oracles: Oedipus at Colonus; 35. Sophocles and the wisdom of Silenus: a reading of Oedipus at Colonus 1211-1248; 36. Theatrical furies: thoughts on Eumenides; 37. The infanticide in Euripides' Medea.

Über Autor(innen)

Easterling, P E
PAT EASTERLING is Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge. She founded (together with Ted Kenney) the Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series, to which her Sophocles: Trachiniae (1982) and Oedipus at Colonus (in preparation) belong. Her extensive editorial activity includes The Cambridge History of Greek Literature (with Bernard Knox, 1985), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (1997) and Greek and Roman Actors (with Edith Hall, 2002).

Krummen, Eveline
EVELINE KRUMMEN is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Graz.

Budelmann, Felix
FELIX BUDELMANN is Professor of Classics at the University of Groningen.