Euripides' Alcestis : narrative, myth, and religion /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Ancient Greek |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
c2013.
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| Series: | Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte ;
112 |
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Table of Contents:
- Narrative, myth, and religion: Introduction
- Tragic storytelling: form and content
- Tragic worlds: narrating the Athenian polis
- Euripides' Alcestis: narrative and interpretation
- Narrative: Introduction
- Death is death is death: narrating a world of perennial suffering
- Myth: Introduction
- Mythological intertextuality: Alcestis and Heracles
- Prophecy, theory, action: the making of a hero
- Religion: Introduction
- Death is death is life: Eleusinian Orphism and moral courage
- Death is death is life: Alcestis, Athens, and mystical salvation.