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Ancient Drama Applications In Education And Interactive Entertainment, Katerina Zacharia, Marientina Gotsis
Ancient Drama Applications In Education And Interactive Entertainment, Katerina Zacharia, Marientina Gotsis
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Into The Light: Making Blessings And Vows, Katerina Zacharia
Into The Light: Making Blessings And Vows, Katerina Zacharia
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This essay is the first in a triptych of essays about Katerina Zacharia's film Blessings and Vows (2018).
Funerary Rituals, Aeschylus’ Eumenides And Sophocles’ Antigone, Katerina Zacharia
Funerary Rituals, Aeschylus’ Eumenides And Sophocles’ Antigone, Katerina Zacharia
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The legislation of Dracon (c. 620 B.C.) and Solon (early sixth century) in Athens is the beginning of the long process by which the family or household, the oikos, was restrained and the polis (city-state) encroached on some of its former functions. The first stage was the restriction of the right to blood-vengeance. This is the background to the family revenge depicted in the Oresteia of Aeschylus. An analysis of the funerary legislation in Athens as transmitted by Plutarch, Demosthenes, and Cicero, points to an attempt by the state to curb excessive ostentation by the elite. I examine epigraphic …
Plurality Of Discourses In Euripides’ Ion: Euripides As Thinker And Dramatist, Katerina Zacharia
Plurality Of Discourses In Euripides’ Ion: Euripides As Thinker And Dramatist, Katerina Zacharia
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This paper discusses a general problem in Euripidean poetics starting from a feature of the Ion. In that play there is a curious juxtaposition of contrasting pairs that run through the very core of the play. Euripides has arranged the plot-construction in a series of doublets, which, I argue, express the very substance of the play itself, as is shown by the fact that, beyond these individual structural repetitions, the thematic of the play as a whole is characterized by doubling and repetition at every level. Also, more profoundly, this arrangement in doublets is a way of representing reality; …
'The Rock Of The Nightingale': Kinship Diplomacy And Sophocles' Tereus, Katerina Zacharia
'The Rock Of The Nightingale': Kinship Diplomacy And Sophocles' Tereus, Katerina Zacharia
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