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Seneca : Hercules Furens
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Introducing Hercules Furens -- Act 1, lines 1-124 -- First Chorus, lines 125-204 -- Act 2, lines 205-523 -- Second Chorus, lines 524-91 -- A...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
, 2017
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| Series: | Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy Ser
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=4787616 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Seneca : Hercules Furens |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Introducing Hercules Furens -- Act 1, lines 1-124 -- First Chorus, lines 125-204 -- Act 2, lines 205-523 -- Second Chorus, lines 524-91 -- Act 3, lines 592-829 -- Third Chorus, lines 830-94 -- Act 4, lines 895-1053 -- Fourth Chorus, lines 1053-1137 -- Act 5, lines 1138-1344 -- 2 Major Themes in Hercules Furens -- Madness and the passions -- Courage, violence, and suicide -- Ancestry and identity -- Moralized landscapes -- 3 Monster-slayer, Moral Exemplar, and Madman: Hercules' Ancient Roles -- Madman and child-killer: Euripides' Mad Heracles (Herakles Mainomenos) -- Madness on stage between Euripides and Seneca -- Augustan Hercules and new modes of heroism -- Seneca's post-Augustan hero -- 4 Hercules Furens and Seneca's Career -- Seneca the tragedian -- Seneca the philosopher -- At the Crossroads: the allegorist's Hercules -- Hercules' rage -- The challenge of ambition -- The challenges of Fortune -- 5 Performance and Reception -- From recitation drama to pantomime: reconstructing Senecan performance -- "Ercles' vein": Hercules in the Renaissance -- "The drama is all in the word": the modern reception of Seneca's rhetoric -- Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Hercules -- "Zero to Hero": avoiding madness in contemporary comics and film -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Chronology -- Glossary of Greek and Latin Terms -- Index. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (169 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781474254915 |
