Euripides

Ion
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-521-59361-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics

Ion is one of Euripides' most appealing and inventive plays. With its story of an anonymous temple slave discovered to be the son of Apollo and Creusa, an Athenian princess, it is a rare example of Athenian myth dramatized for the Athenian stage. It explores the Delphic Oracle and Greek piety; the Athenian ideology of autochthony and empire; and the tragic suffering and longing of the mythical foundling and his mother, whose experiences are represented uniquely in surviving Greek literature. The plot anticipates later Greek comedy, while the recognition scene builds on a tradition founded by Homer's Odyssey and Aeschylus' Oresteia. The introduction sets out the main issues in interpretation and discusses the play's contexts in myth, religion, law, politics, and society. By attending to language, style, meter, and dramatic technique, this edition with its detailed commentary makes Ion accessible to students, scholars, and readers of Greek at all levels.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Euripides

Gibert, John C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Euripides: life and works; 2. Myth; 3. Setting, staging, and production; 4. Structure and dramatic technique; 5. The Chorus and the characters; 6. Political identity; 7. Ritual and religion; 8. Revelation and deception; 9. Genre and tone; 10. Transmission of the text; A note on the text and critical apparatus; Ion; Commentary.

Über Autor(innen)

Gibert, John C.
John C. Gibert is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is author of Change of Mind in Greek Tragedy (1995) and co-author (with C. Collard and M. J. Cropp) of Euripides: Selected Fragmentary Plays II (2004). He has also written numerous articles, chapters, and reviews on Greek drama, religion, and philosophy.