Euripides

Iphigeneia in Tauris (eBook, PDF)

Übersetzer: Lattimore, Richmond

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the tragic actors would have defined it as pure tragedy, the happy ending notwithstanding. While not one of his "deep" dramatic works, the play is Euripidean in many respects, above all in its recurrent theme of escape, symbolized in the rescue of Iphigeneia by Artemis, to whom she was about to be sacrificed. Richmond Lattimore--who has been called the dean of American translators--has translated Iphigeneia in Tauris with skill and subtlety, revealing it as one of the most delicately written and beautifully contrived of the Euripidean "romances."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199728558
• Artikelnr.: 54561374

Autorenporträt

The late Richmond Lattimore translated a vast corpus of classical verse, including Homer's Iliad, the odes of Pindar, the Oresteia of Aeschylus, a number of plays by Euripides, and Aristophanes' Frogs--for which he received the Bollingen Translation Prize in 1962. He was also the author of numerous critical works, and was a well-known poet whom James Dickey called "the finest and most sympathetic craftsman of his time."

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Emotional Strategies: An Existentialist Perspective
1: Anger as a Way of Engaging the World
2: Why It Is Good to Be Afraid
3: Varieties of Fear and Anger: Emotions and Moods
4: Lessons of Love (and Platos Symposium)
5: We Are Not Alone: Compassion and Sympathy
6: Extremes of Emotion: Grief, Laughter, and Happiness
7: Self-Reproach in Guilt, Shame, and Pride
8: Nasty Emotions: Envy, Spite, Jealousy, Resentment, and Vengeance
Part II: Toward a General Theory: Myths about Emotions
9: What an Emotion Theory Should Do
10: Myth 1: Emotions Are Ineffable
11: Myth 2: Emotions Are Feelings
12: Myth 3: The Hydraulic Model
13: Myth 4: Emotions Are in the Mind
14: Myth 5: Emotions Are Stupid (They Have No Intelligence)
15: Myth 6: Two Flavors of Emotion, Positive and Negative
16: Myth 7: Emotions Are Irrational
17: Myth 8: Emotions Happen to Us (They Are Passions)
Part III: The Ethics of Emotion: A Quest for Emotional Integrity
18: Emotions as Evaluative Judgments
19: Emotions, Self, and Consciousness
20: Emotional Experience (Feelings)
21: The Universality of Emotions: Evolution and the Human Condition
22: Emotions Across Cultures
23: Happiness, Spirituality, and Emotional Integrity
Annotated Bibliography
Index