Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-24932-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 634 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1020 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus’ reception begins in his own lifetime. And, while he has not been the most reproduced of the three Attic tragedians on the stage since then, his receptions have transcended genre and crossed to nearly every continent. While still engaging with Aeschylus’ theatrical reception, the volume also explores Aeschylus off the stage--in radio, the classroom, television, political theory, philosophy, science fiction and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Futo Kennedy, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
Author Biographies

Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus
Rebecca Futo Kennedy

Part 1: Pre-Modern Receptions
1 The Reception of Aeschylus in Sicily
David G. Smith
2 The Comedians’ Aeschylus
David Rosenbloom
3 Aristotle’s Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without Malice
Dana Lacourse Munteanu
4 Aeschylus in the Hellenistic Period
Sebastiana Nervegna
5 Aeschylus in the Roman Empire
George W. M. Harrison
6 Aeschylus in Byzantium
Christos Simelidis

Part 2: Modern Receptions
7 Aeschylus and Opera
Michael Ewans
8 Aeschylus in Germany
Theodore Ziolkowski
9 Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, “The Sick Man of Europe”
Gonda Van Steen
10 Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound: Prometheus’ Gifts to Humankind
Fabien Desset
11 Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
Ana González-Rivas Fernández
12 An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity Fair
Barbara Witucki
13 Form and Money in Wagner’s Ring and Aeschylean Tragedy
Richard Seaford
14 Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge
Patrick J. Murphy and Fredrick Porcheddu
15 The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians?
Stratos E. Constantinidis
16 Persians On French Television: An Opera—Oratorio Echoing the Algerian War
Gabriel Sevilla
17 Aeschylus’ Oresteia on British Television
Amanda Wrigley
18 Orestes On Trial in Africa: Pasolini’s Appunti Per un’Orestiade Africana and Sissako’s Bamako
Tom Hawkins

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca Futo Kennedy, PhD (2003), Denison University, is Associate Professor of Classical Studies. She has published on Greek tragedy, especially Aeschylus, the lives of women immigrants in classical Athens, and theories of ethnicity and human difference in the ancient world.

Contributors are: Larissa Atkison, Geoffrey Bakewell, Ryan K. Balot, Jacques Bromberg, Stratos Constantinidis, Fabien Desset, Michael Ewans, Ana Gonzalez-Rivas Fernandez, George Harrison, Tom Hawkins, Marianne McDonald, Dana Lacourse Munteanu, Patrick J. Murphy, Sebastiana Nervegna, Fredrick Porcheddu, Brett M. Rogers, David Rosenbloom, Arlene Saxonhouse, Richard Seaford, Gabrielle Sevilla, Christos Simelidis, David G. Smith, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Barbara Witucki, Amanda Wrigley, Gonda Van Steen, Theodore Ziolkowski.