›Dionysiac‹ Dialogues

Euripides' ›Bacchae‹, Aeschylus and ›Christus Patiens‹
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-076434-5
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 533 g

Reihe: Trends in classics : [...], Supplementary volumes

This book consists of two main, interrelated thematic units: the reception of Aeschylus' Dionysiac plays in and the refiguration of the latter in the Byzantine drama . In both sections the common denominator is Euripides' , which is approached as a receiving text in the first unit and as a source text in the second. Each section addresses dramatic, ideological and cultural facets of the reception process, yielding insight into pivotal Dionysiac motifs that the ancient and Byzantine treatments share. Different pieces of evidence, mythographic, stylistic, and iconographic, are interrogated, so that light is shed on aspects of the storyline, the concepts, and the imagery of Aeschylus' two tetralogies. At the same time, provides a valuable exemplum for aspects of dramatic technique, plot-patterns, and concepts refigured in . This exploration thoroughly and systematically focuses on the ways in which the pagan play was transformed to bring forward new pillars of thought and innovative values in different cultural and ideological contexts over a wide time span from Greek Antiquity to Byzantium.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of classical and byzantine studies, classical reception,

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xanthaki-Karamanou, Georgia

Xanthake¯-Karamanu, Geo¯rgia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou, University of the Peloponnese, Greece.