Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy (Sather Classical Lectures)

387 Pages·1998·4.85 MB·English

by  Anne Pippin Burnett

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title : Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy Sather Classical
Lectures ; V. 62
author : Burnett, Anne Pippin.
publisher : University of California Press
isbn10 | asin : 0520210964
print isbn13 : 9780520210967
ebook isbn13 : 9780585160191
language : English
subject Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism, Revenge in
literature.
publication date : 1998
lcc : PA3136.B79 1998eb
ddc : 882/.0109
subject : Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism, Revenge in
literature.
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The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature
In honor of beloved Virgil
"O degli altri poeti onore e lume . . ."
Dante, Inferno

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Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy

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SATHER CLASSICAL LECTURES
Volume Sixty-Two

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Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy
Anne Pippin Burnett
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
BERKELEY · LOS · ANGELES · LONDON

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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution to this book provided by the Joan Palevsky Endowment in
Classical Literature.
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd. London, England
© 1998 by The Regents of the University of California
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Burnett, Anne Pippin, 1925-
Revenge in Attic and later tragedy / Anne Pippin Burnett.
p. cm. (Sather classical lectures; v. 62)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-520-21096-4 (cloth)
1. Greek drama (Tragedy)History and criticism. 2. Revenge in
literature. I. Title. II. Series.
PA3136.B79 1997
882'.0109dc21
97-22677
Printed in the United States of America
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information
SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.

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for Ralph and for Michael

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"You will see the characters of the true story clearly, as if luminous and on a higher plane, and at the same time
they may not look quite human, and you may well be a little afraid of them. . . ."
"O God," said the lady. "What you call the divine art seems to me a hard and cruel game, which maltreats and
mocks its human beings."
ISAK DINESEN, "THE CARDINAL'S FIRST TALE," LAST TALES
On this visit di Grasso played King Lear, Othello, Civil Death, Turgenev's The Parasite, confirming with every
gesture that there is more justice in outbursts of noble passion than in all the joyless rules that run the world.
ISAAK BABEL, "DI GRASSO," TALES OF ODESSA

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Contents
Note on Abbreviations xi
Preface xiii
1. Huge Frenzy and Quaint Malice: Seneca and the English Renaissance 1
2. Odysseus, Pindar's Heracles, and the Tyrannicides 33
3. Festival Vengeance: Euripides' Cyclops and Sophocles' Ajax 65
4. Ritualized Revenge: Aeschylus' Choephori 99
5. Delphic Matricide: Sophocles' Electra 119
6. Women Doing Men's Work: Euripides' Children of Heracles and Hecuba 142
7. Child-Killing Mothers: Sophocles' Tereus 177
8. Connubial Revenge: Euripides' Medea 192
9. The Women's Quarters: Euripides' Electra 225
10. Philanthropic Revenge: Euripides' Orestes 247
Appendix: Medea's Monologue 273
Index of Classical Authors and Titles and Biblical Citations 289
Genereal Index 293

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Note on Abbreviations
Names of authors and fides of works are abbreviated in accordance with the list in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3d
ed. (1996), pp. xxix-liv.

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