Stamatia Dova

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. In a collection of thirty enjoyable essays, Stamatia Dova combines intertextual research and thought-provoking analysis to shed new light on concepts of the hero in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's Symposium, and Euripides' Alcestis. Through systematic readings of a wide range of seemingly unrelated texts, the author offers a cohesive picture of heroic character in a variety of literary genres. Her characterization of Achilles, Odysseus, and Heracles is artfully supported by a comprehensive overview of the theme of descent to the underworld in Homer, Bacchylides, and Euripides. Aimed at the specialist as well as the general reader, Greek Heroes in and out of Hades brings innovative Classical scholarship and insightful literary criticism to a wide audience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739144992
• Artikelnr.: 38441933

Autorenporträt

By Stamatia Dova

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface Part I: Odysseus and the Poetics of katábasis Odysseus
among the Shades What a Pity he is not a Hero! Agamemnon's katapontismós An
Epic Encore on the Problematik of kléos Who is µa???tat?? in the Odyssey On
Ruling over the Dead and Other Impossibilities Rethinking makarismós in and
out of Hades Aias and the End of kléos Living Once and Dying Twice: Circe
as an Agent of nóstos On Death, Rebirth, and a Mother in Hades Part II:
Hades (and Heroism) Revisited A Terror to Behold: Heracles in the Nékyia
Heracles Between Life and Death Variations on a Duel Theme: Bacchylides 5
and Iliad 6 On Wrath and the Mother On Wrath and the Goddess How to Praise
a Tyrant An Example Gone Awry Looking for Death in the Right Places On
Foreknowledge of Death and its Blessings On cháris, apáte, and Other
Necessities Keeping Achilles Alive: Tenes and the Liminality of Tenedos
Part III: Achilles, Alcestis, and the Poetics of non-katábasis On Ruling
over the Dead in Plato's Republic Achilles in Plato's Symposium Phaedrus
and the Heroization of Alcestis On Love, Glory, and Love of Glory Looking
for Love in the Wrong Places Admetus and the Poetics of philopsychía To
Love is to Die for Alcestis' Virtual katábasis Heracles and the
Deconstruction of Alcestis' Death Selected Bibliography