Revenge in Attic and later tragedy /
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| Author / Creator: | Burnett, Anne Pippin, 1925-2017. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1998. |
| Description: | xviii, 306 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sather classical lectures. v. 62 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3356003 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Huge Frenzy and Quaint Malice: Seneca and the English Renaissance
- 2. Odysseus, Pindar's Heracles, and the Tyrannicides
- 3. Festival Vengeance: Euripides' Cyclops and Sophocles' Ajax
- 4. Ritualized Revenge: Aeschylus' Choephori
- 5. Delphic Matricide: Sophocles' Electra
- 6. Women Doing Men's Work: Euripides' Children of Heracles and Hecuba
- 7. Child-Killing Mothers: Sophocles' Tereus
- 8. Connubial Revenge: Euripides' Medea
- 9. The Women's Quarters: Euripides' Electra
- 10. Philanthropic Revenge: Euripides' Orestes
- App. Medea's Monologue.