Theseus, Tragedy and the Athenian Empire

ISBN-13: 9780198150633 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str.

Sophie (Assistant Professor and Chairman of Classics Mills

Opis

This text describes Athenian attempts to cope with the contradictions in the character of Theseus who seemed the perfect Athenian, but under this exterior lay a heartless seducer, rapist and killer of his own son. Theseus in the context of 5th century Athenian culture is also discussed.

Recenzje

This new contribution to the Oxford Classical Monograph series offers with striking diligence and finely woven argumentation, numerous exegeses of passages from Greek tragedies which characterize Theseus ... The unusual thing about this book is its refreshingly wide scope for a theme-orientated topic ... Mills' readable prose and abundant but individually concise footnotes prove that she is as conversant with vase painting as with Cleisthenes' reforms.