Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide in Greek TragedyBRILL, 1995 - 210 páginas Groaning Tears examines suicide in Greek tragedy in the light of the fifth-century ethical climate. No full-scale work has previously been devoted to this pervasive topic. The particular focus of identifying suicide as a response to the expectations of popular ethics and social demands makes it useful for scholars and students of drama, ethics and sociology. Chapter one establishes the ethical background of audiences in the fifth century while chapters two through five examine suicide in the context of whole plays based on motivational distinctions: to avoid disgrace and preserve an honorable reputation; to avoid further suffering; to end grief; and to sacrifice oneself for a greater good. The final chapter considers a drama of lighter tone that presents suicide in all of its ethical and theatrical aspects. |
Contenido
To endure or to die honorably | 45 |
escape songs | 80 |
suicide from grief | 102 |
Noble suicide | 129 |
Alcestis | 161 |
suicide in Euripides Helen | 168 |
plot summaries | 180 |
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Index locorum | 201 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide in Greek Tragedy E.P. Garrison Vista previa limitada - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles action Admetus Aeschylus Agamemnon aidos Ajax Ajax's Alcestis altruistic ancient Andromache Antigone Antigone's arete Aristotle aspects Athenian audience Aulis becomes Bride of Hades burial Cambridge Capaneus characters chorus cide Classical commit suicide Conacher corpse Creon death Deianeira discussion disgrace divine drama Durkheim escape song Eteocles ethical eukleia Euripidean Euripides Eurydice Evadne exit fifth-century gods Greek Tragedy grief Haemon Hecuba Helen Heracles Hermione heroic Hippolytus honor Hooff human Hyllus imagery individual interpretation Iolaus Iole Iphigenia Jocasta kaka kill Loraux Macaria Maidens marriage Menelaus Menoeceus messenger metaphor moral motif motivations murder Neoptolemus noble Oedipus oracle Orestes Oxford paradox Phaedra philia Plato play pollution Polyneices Polyxena prophecy punishment reputation ritual role sacrifice scene self-destruction self-sacrifice shame silence social society Sophoclean Sophocles speech stasimon Studies suggests suicide suicide note suicide victim Suppliants Teiresias Teucer Thebes theme Theseus tion Trachiniae tragic suicide Winnington-Ingram wish Women of Trachis Zeus δὲ καὶ τὰ