Robin Mitchell-Boyask

Plague and the Athenian Imagination

Drama, History, and the Cult of Asclepius

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the effect of the great plague of Athens on its literary and social imagination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780521296373
• ISBN-10: 0521296374
• Artikelnr.: 33765842

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. Introduction
2. Death, myth and drama before the Plague
3. Materials I: the language of disease in tragedy
4. Plague, cult and drama: Euripides' Hippolytus
5. Oedipus and the Plague
6. Trachiniae and the Plague
7. Materials II: the cult of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus
8. Disease and stasis in Euripidean drama: tragic pharmacology on the south slope of the Acropolis
9. The Athenian Asklepieion and the end of Philoctetes
10. Conclusions and afterthoughts.