Aeschylus’ “Choephori”
Issues of Interpretation and Text
By (author) Kurt Sier
Paperback (Published)
(October 2024)
ISBN: 9783515138222
6.69 x 9.45 inches
Price: $21.00
In stock
Choephori (or Libation Bearers) is the second play of Aeschylus’ Oresteia. It was the main reference point for the Electras of Sophocles and Euripides and may be called the archetype of all later dramatizations of Orestes’ matricide. But while Choephori can be considered the most influential part of the tragic trilogy in terms of theater history, it is also, paradoxically, the worst preserved of the three plays, its text resting upon a single medieval manuscript and being corrupt in many places. This is one of the reasons why the drama continues to be controversial to an extent that even by ,Aeschylean’ standards seems exceptional. Although there is a vast amount of literature devoted to the Oresteia and there are excellent contributions dealing with its middle play, very many of the problems occurring in Choephori are still unsettled. The present study does not focus on general themes (e.g. justice, gender, intertextuality), albeit such topics will necessarily arise in the course of the argument, nor does it claim to give a new overall interpretation. Rather, it intends to discuss questions concerning structure and performance and to address a number of issues that seem important for understanding the play.
- By (author) Kurt Sier
Similar Books
Cahiers de littérature française
Les Métamorphoses du texte. Enjeux intertextuels et transpositions visuelles
Volume 25
Contesting Labeled Identities
The Sociology of Gentilics in Biblical and Northwest Semitic Literature
Drunk the Potion, No Whit Charmed
The Doctrine of Pure and Perfect Souls from Iamblichus to Damascius
Epiphanies of the Divine in the Septuagint and the New Testament
Fifth International Symposium of the Corpus Judaeo-Hellenisticum Novi Testamenti (CJHNT), 14-17 May 2015, Nottingham
European Drama and Performance Studies
Dramatisations politiques. Théâtre, politique et idéologie au XIXe siècle (1806-1914)
Volume 27
Language and Power in the Roman Empire and Early India
Hierarchy, Ambiguity, and the Art of Reading the Signs in Cosmopolitan Cultures
Late Antique villae in the Balkans (3rd–7th c. AD): Current Research Questions and Perspectives
HAEMUS Companion to the Late Antique Balkans 1
Volume 4
LiCArC
Trauma et création artistique : l’engagement des artistes arabes dans des dynamiques de résiliences
Volume 14
Nurturing the Elite
Representations of Drinking, Eating, and Religious Vessels in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography
Volume 13
