The use of anonymous characters in Greek tragedy the shaping of heroes /
| Main Author: | Yoon, Florence, 1981- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Physical Description: |
xii, 178 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series: |
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
344. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Classes : Personal servants
- Nurses and tutors
- Other servants
- Heralds
- Priests
- Children
- Individuals : Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they say
- Prologizomenoi
- Eteocles and his scout (Septem)
- Agamemnon and the herald (Agamemnon)
- Admetus and the servants (Alcestis)
- Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by their dialogue
- Creon and the watchman (Antigone)
- Deianeira and the messenger (Trachiniae)
- Orestes and the tutor (S. Electra)
- Iolaus, Alcmene and the servant of Hyllus (Heracleidae)
- Hippolytus and the old man (Hippolytus)
- Andromache and her "syndoulos" (Andromache)
- Electra, Orestes, and the old tutor (E. Electra)
- Menelaus and the doorkeeper (Helen)
- Orestes and the Phrygian slave (Orestes)
- Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they do
- Phaedra and her nurse (Hippolytus)
- Creousa and the old tutor (Ion)
- Agamemnon and the old servant (Ia)
- Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they are
- Electra and the autourgos (E. Electra)
- Heracles and his daughter (Heracleidae)
- Eurystheus and his herald (Heracleidae)
- The Egyptians and their herald (A. Supplices and Aegyptioi)
- Special cases : The Persian queen : the anonymity of a historical figure
- Cilissa : anonymously named
- The slave of Loxias in Ion : naming an anonymous character
- Contrasts and comparisons : Epic : Homer and Hesiod
- Aristophanic comedy : the "kedestes" in Thesmophoriazusae
- A brief note on later tragedy.