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From Agent to Spectator

Name: From Agent to Spectator
Brand: De Gruyter
SKU: 9783110578188
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Witnessing the Aftermath in Ancient Greek Epic and Tragedy

Autor: Emily Allen-Hornblower

Jazyk:

Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: De Gruyter

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This book looks at witnesses to suffering and death in ancient Greek epic (Homer's Iliad) and traged...

Informácie o knihe

Autor

Emily Allen-Hornblower

Jazyk

Gréčtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

2017

Stránok

344

EAN

9783110578188

ISBN

3110578182

Enbook ID

18200224

Vydavateľ

De Gruyter

Hmotnosť

570

Rozmery

230 x 155 x 230

Kompletný popis

This book looks at witnesses to suffering and death in ancient Greek epic (Homer's Iliad) and tragedy. Internal spectators abound in both genres, and have received due scholarly attention. The present monograph covers new ground by dealing with a specific subset of characters: those who are put in the position of spectator to (and, often, commentator on) their own deed(s). By their very nature, protagonists are confined to the role of witness to the suffering (or deaths) they have caused only for brief stretches of time - often a single scene or even just the length of a speech - but every instance is of central importance, not just to our understanding of the characters in question, but also to the articulation of fundamental themes within the poetic works under examination. As they shift from the status of agent to that of witness, these protagonists, qua spectators to the consequences of their actions, give voice to, dramatize, and enact the tragic motifs of human helplessness and mortal fallibility that lie at the core of Homeric epic and Greek tragedy and that define the human condition, in a manner that leads the audience looking on to ponder their own.