Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide in Greek TragedyBRILL, 2018 M07 17 - 210 páginas Groaning Tears examines suicide in Greek tragedy in 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
I Introduction | 1 |
II To endure or to die honorably | 45 |
escape songs | 80 |
suicide from grief | 102 |
V Noble suicide | 129 |
suicide in Euripides Helen | 168 |
plot summaries | 180 |
Select bibliography | 186 |
Index locorum | 201 |
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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide in Greek Tragedy Elise P. Garrison Vista previa limitada - 1995 |
Términos y frases comunes
Achilles action Admetus Aeschylus Agamemnon aidōs Ajax Ajax's Alcestis altruistic ancient Andromache Antigone Antigone's arete Aristotle aspects Athenian audience Aulis becomes Berkeley Bride of Hades burial Cambridge Capaneus characters chorus cide Classical commit suicide Conacher corpse Creon death Deianeira discussion divine Drama Durkheim escape song Eteocles ethical eukleia Euripidean Euripides Eurydice Evadne exit fifth-century gods Greece Greek Tragedy Haemon Hecuba Helen Heracles Hermes Hermione heroic Hippolytus Homer honor Hooff human Hyllus imagery individual interpretation Iphigenia Iphigenia at Aulis Jocasta kaka Kamerbeek kill London Loraux Macaria marriage Menelaus Menoeceus messenger moral motif motivations murder noble Oedipus oracle Orestes Oxford paradox Phaedra philia Philology Plato play pollution Polyneices Polyxena prophecy Ritual role sacrifice scene self-sacrifice shame silence social society Sophoclean Sophocles speech stasimon Studies suggests suicide suicide note suicide victim Suppliant Women Teiresias Teucer Thebes theme Theseus tion Trachiniae tragic suicide Winnington-Ingram wish Women of Trachis Zeus δὲ καὶ