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From Never Enough To Nothing At All: An Investigation Of Political Commentary In Euripides' Medea, Eleanor Clark

Departmental Honors & Graduate Capstone Projects

When studying the plays of Euripides, scholars have often focused on the playwright’s social commentary while paying less attention to the relationship between the plays’ plots and the political environment in Greece at the time of their production. Furthermore, although many of Euripides’ plays have been identified as referencing contemporary political events, scholars have made no such assertions regarding the Medea. Through an examination of Euripides’ Medea and Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, this study seeks to address this gap in scholarship by taking into account the political context at the time which it was written and first produced. …

Enigmatic, Tragic, Crip; Or, Crip Time In Sophocles’S Oedipus And Aristotle’S Poetics, Maxwell Gray

Journal of Gender, Ethnic, and Cross-Cultural Studies

Tragedy represents a classical literary genre the field of disability studies often prefers not to approach too closely, lest disability also be called a tragedy by association. At the same time, my thinking is organized around my personal experience of chronic illness, pain, and disability that appear in early adulthood, when it’s maybe least expected and most difficult to comprehend; or, in a word, tragic. I turn to the literary genre of classical Greek tragedy to think about/with more enigmatic and tragic forms of disability and crip temporality. In particular, I read Sophocles’s classic tragedy Oedipus and Aristotle’s foundational interpretation …

Signs In Sophocles: Modern Approaches To Ptsd In The Ajax, Charlotte Simon

Honors Theses

This project explores the relationship between ancient Greek tragedy and modern psychology, specifically focusing on instances of PTSD, both through the descriptions of symptoms and the cultural reaction to such trauma responses in both ancient and modern sources. The case study from ancient Greece is Sophocles’ play, Ajax, a dramatic depiction of a post-PTSD soldier who has a mental break and is faced with either living with what he has done or committing suicide. The primary objective of this project is to illustrate what modern psychological theory can reveal about the portrayal of PTSD in Greek tragedy and therefore also …

Interpretation Of Lyrical Images In National Book “Musibatnomai Turki”, Lola Аzimova

The Light of Islam

There are many works in Uzbek literature related to the history of Islam. In particular, there are many works about the tragic death of Imam Hassan and Imam Hussein, which are also known as the tragedy of Kerbela. Among them, in Uzbek literature there are many stories like ‘Karbalonoma’ by Uvaysi, ‘Kissai Imam Hassan va Imam Husayn’ and ‘Kissai Carbalo’ by Khalis Tashkandi, ‘Ravzat ush-shuhada’ by Sabir Saykali, the epics Niso and Khoni, and folk books like ‘ Musibatnomai Turki’,’ Imam Hassan and Imam Husayn’ and ‘Kissai Imam Husayn’. The article describes the artistic features of the folk book ‘Musibatnomai …

William Shakespeare And Chinua Achebe: A Study Of Character And The Supernatural, Kenneth N. Usongo

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examines how Shakespeare and Achebe use supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, beliefs, divinations and others to create complex characters. Even though these features are indicative of the preponderance of the belief in the supernatural by some people of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and traditional Igbo societies, Shakespeare and Achebe primarily use the supernatural to represent the states of mind of their protagonists.

Through an essentially New Historicist approach to the study of character and the supernatural in the tragedies and novels of Shakespeare and Achebe respectively, I argue that both writers, besides using supernatural features to explore the …

The Archaeology And Translation Of Greek Tragedy : Tragedy And The Emotions, Daniel Edward Gremmler

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The history of interpreting Greek tragedy and the emotions is a history of logos. Tragedy, however, is poiēsis and speaks the language of muthos. This project approaches popular interpretations of tragedy and the emotions as problems of translation between various discourses: between Greek and English, past and present, historical and transhistorical, logos and muthos. After identifying the ways in which logos clashes with logos from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel and modern classicists, we suggest a new framework through which the emotional effect of tragedy, the tragic pleasure, can be understood: the thaumon and the deinon (wondrous and terrible).

Future Philology! By Ulrich Von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff - Translated By G. Postl, B. Babich, And H. Schmid, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

Ulrich von Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Möllendorff's

FUTURE PHILOLOGY! a reply to FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE’S Ordinarius Professor of Classical Philology at Basel „birth of tragedy“

Translated by Gertrude Postl, Babette E. Babich, and Holger Schmid (Greek and Latin translations by Babette Babich and Holger Schmid. Additional corrections to the Greek by James I. Porter and Alexander Nehamas)

Die Sage Von Agamemnos Ermordung Und Dem Rächer Orestes In Der Griechischen Poesie, Franz Lauczizky

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.

De Choro Persarum Fabulae Aeschyleae, Christian Muff

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.

De Metonymia Abstractae Notionis Pro Concreta Apud Aeschylum, Heinrich Rüter

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.

De Aeschyli Choephororum Stasimo Primo: Dissertatio Inauguralis, Aemilius Langheim

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.

Zur Parodos In Den Persem Des Aeschylus, Robert Enger

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.

Kritisch-Exegetische Bemerkungen Zu Den Supplices Des Aeschylus, Johannes Oberdick

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.

De Aeschyli Stichomythiis, Karl Friedrich Sudhaus

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.

De Aeschyli Choro In Agamemnone V. 352 Sqq., Franz Volkmar Fritzschius

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.

Emendationes Aeschyleae, Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin

Hermann Sauppe Library

No abstract provided.