The diverse afterlife scenarios that pervade the Oresteia have never been examined together. This innovative study argues that they transform its thematic, ethical, and political issues. A new approach to a central work of world literature, this book is crucial reading for students and scholars of Greek literature and religion.
The diverse afterlife scenarios that pervade the Oresteia have never been examined together. This innovative study argues that they transform its thematic, ethical, and political issues. A new approach to a central work of world literature, this book is crucial reading for students and scholars of Greek literature and religion.
Amit Shilo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a cofounder of Classics and Social Justice. He has published on Plato and Greek Tragedy.
Inhaltsangabe
1. The herald of the Agamemnon: Accounting the dead 2. The Chorus of the Agamemnon: Human views on the beyond. 3. Prophecy on the banks of the Acheron: Thinking Cassandra past her doom 4. Afterlives at the tomb of Agamemnon 5. Heroes in the Oresteia 6. The ghost of Clytemnestra 7. The tablet-writing mind of Hades: Omniscient ethical judgment.
1. The herald of the Agamemnon: Accounting the dead 2. The Chorus of the Agamemnon: Human views on the beyond. 3. Prophecy on the banks of the Acheron: Thinking Cassandra past her doom 4. Afterlives at the tomb of Agamemnon 5. Heroes in the Oresteia 6. The ghost of Clytemnestra 7. The tablet-writing mind of Hades: Omniscient ethical judgment.
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