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- catalog abstract ""Moderns tend to view the drama of ancient Athens as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Because it was a state theater, the Attic stage is also supposed to have offered lessons in the peaceable virtues that the city required. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place distinct both from reality and from the ethics of ordinary life." "We who live among tired and demystified political institutions are afraid that individuals unrestrained by the influence of the community may resort to crime and violence. Yet in an Attic vengeance play, a treacherous "criminal" triumphs over a victim. How could the city of Athens show its citizens Medea's murder of her children? Orestes' killing of his mother? Anne Burnett reveals a larger reality in these ancient plays, comparing them to later drama and finding in them forgotten and powerful meaning."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10931904.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Moderns tend to view the drama of ancient Athens as a presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Because it was a state theater, the Attic stage is also supposed to have offered lessons in the peaceable virtues that the city required. Such views are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent actions occur in a legendary time and place distinct both from reality and from the ethics of ordinary life." "We who live among tired and demystified political institutions are afraid that individuals unrestrained by the influence of the community may resort to crime and violence. Yet in an Attic vengeance play, a treacherous "criminal" triumphs over a victim. How could the city of Athens show its citizens Medea's murder of her children? Orestes' killing of his mother? Anne Burnett reveals a larger reality in these ancient plays, comparing them to later drama and finding in them forgotten and powerful meaning."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Huge frenzy and quaint malice: Seneca and the English Renaissance -- Odysseus, Pindar's Heracles, and the Tyrannicides -- Festival vengeance: Euripides' Cyclops and Sophocles' Ajax -- Ritualized revenge: Aeschylus' Choephori -- Delphic matricide: Sophocles' Electra -- Women doing men's work: Euripides' Children of Heracles and Hecuba -- Child-killing mothers: Sophocles' Tereus -- Connubial revenge: Euripides' Medea -- The women's quarters: Euripides' Electra -- Philanthropic revenge: Euripides' Orestes.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 306 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0520210964 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Sather classical lectures ; v. 62.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog subject "882/.0109 21".
- catalog subject "Greek drama (Tragedy) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PA3136 .B79 1997".
- catalog subject "PA3136 .B79 1998".
- catalog subject "Revenge in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Huge frenzy and quaint malice: Seneca and the English Renaissance -- Odysseus, Pindar's Heracles, and the Tyrannicides -- Festival vengeance: Euripides' Cyclops and Sophocles' Ajax -- Ritualized revenge: Aeschylus' Choephori -- Delphic matricide: Sophocles' Electra -- Women doing men's work: Euripides' Children of Heracles and Hecuba -- Child-killing mothers: Sophocles' Tereus -- Connubial revenge: Euripides' Medea -- The women's quarters: Euripides' Electra -- Philanthropic revenge: Euripides' Orestes.".
- catalog title "Revenge in Attic and later tragedy / Anne Pippin Burnett.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".