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Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus

"Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Abbreviations" -- "Author Biographies" -- "Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus" -- "Part 1 Pre-Modern Receptions" -- "Chapter 1 The Reception of Aeschylus...

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Main Author:	Kennedy, Rebecca Futo (Author)
Document Type:	Online Resource Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : BRILL , 2017
Series:	Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Ser
Online Access:	http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5100733
Related Items:	Erscheint auch als: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus
E-Book Packages:	ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection

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Summary:	"Contents" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Abbreviations" -- "Author Biographies" -- "Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus" -- "Part 1 Pre-Modern Receptions" -- "Chapter 1 The Reception of Aeschylus in Sicily" -- "Chapter 2 The Comediansâ Aeschylus" -- "Chapter 3 Aristotleâs Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without Malice" -- "Chapter 4 Aeschylus in the Hellenistic Period" -- "Chapter 5 Aeschylus in the Roman Empire" -- "Chapter 6 Aeschylus in Byzantium" -- "Part 2 Modern Receptions" -- "Chapter 7 Aeschylus and Opera" -- "Chapter 8 Aeschylus in Germany" -- "Chapter 9 Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, âThe Sick Man of Europeâ" -- "Chapter 10 Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelleyâs Prometheus Unbound: Prometheusâ Gifts to Humankind" -- "Chapter 11 Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley" -- "Chapter 12 An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity Fair" -- "Chapter 13 Form and Money in Wagnerâs Ring and Aeschylean Tragedy" -- "Chapter 14 Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge" -- "Chapter 15 The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians?" -- "Chapter 16 Persians On French Television: An Opera-Oratorio Echoing the Algerian War" -- "Chapter 17 Aeschylusâ Oresteia on British Television" -- "Chapter 18 Orestes on Trial in Africa: Pasoliniâs Appunti per unâ Orestiade Africana and Sissakoâs Bamako" -- "Chapter 19 Reception of the Plays of Aeschylus in South Africa" -- "Chapter 20 In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings in Latin America" -- "Chapter 21 Avatars of Aeschylus: OâNeill to Herzog/Golder" -- "Chapter 22 The Overlooked Î¿á¼°ÎºÎ¿Î½Î¿Î¼Î¯Î± of Aeschylusâ Agamemnon and Stanley Kubrickâs The Shining". "Chapter 23 âNow Harkonnen Shall Kill Harkonnenâ: Aeschylus, Dynastic Violence, and Twofold Tragedies in Frank Herbertâs Dune" -- "Chapter 24 âSave Our Cityâ: The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought" -- "Chapter 25 Political Theory in Aeschylean Drama: Ancient Themes and their Contemporary Reception".
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (654 pages)
ISBN:	9789004348820