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852210
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Pucci, Pietro
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| Title & Author
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Euripides' revolution under cover : : an essay /\ Pietro Pucci.
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| Publication Statement
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Ithaca :: Cornell University Press,, 2016.
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| Series Statement
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Cornell studies in classical philology
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1 online resource (vi, 235 pages)
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| ISBN
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1501704052
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: 9781501704055
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1501700618
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9781501700613
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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Introduction : Euripides's poetic game and law of composition -- Anthropomorphism -- The protection of the self and the role of sophia -- Some connotations of sophia -- Polyneikes' truth -- Hecuba's rhetoric -- Eros in Euripides's poetics : sex as the cause of the Trojan War -- The lewd gaze of the eye -- The power of love : who is Aphrodite? -- Phaedra -- Hermione : the Andromache -- Female victims of war : The Troades -- Survival in poetry -- Figures of metalepsis : the invention of literature -- The failure of politics in Euripides's poetics : politics in Suppliant women -- Political philosophy : a universal program of peace and progress -- How to deliberate a war -- Democracy and monarchy -- The battle -- The rescue of the corpses -- Return to arms -- The polis's loss of control and authority -- The Bacchants' gospel and the Greek city -- Pentheus and Tiresias -- Dionysus' revenge : first round -- Revenge prepares its murderous weapons -- Initiation and sacrifice -- Victory and defeat -- Euripides's poetry.
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| Abstract
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This work explores Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, this book goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies.
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Euripides-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Euripides-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Euripides.
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Anthropomorphism in literature.
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Gods, Greek, in literature.
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Anthropomorphism in literature.
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DRAMA-- Ancient, Classical Medieval.
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Gods, Greek, in literature.
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PHILOSOPHY-- History Surveys-- Ancient Classical.
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| Dewey Classification
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882/.01
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| LC Classification
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PA3978.P83 2016eb
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| Parallel Title
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Euripides's revolution under cover
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