Euripides and Alcestis: Speculations, Simulations, and Stories of Love in the Athenian CultureUniversity Press of America, 1998 - 113 pages Euripides and Alcestis demonstrates the inherent presence of indeterminacy in Euripides' play, Alcestis. The author uses about eighty of the scholarly attempts to establish a determinate meaning of the play to exhibit the difficulty and lack of success in previous attempts at interpretation. She recognizes that the meaning of the play is surrounded by ambiguity and indeterminacy and provides an interpretation based on this knowledge. As an interpretation, the author focuses on Admetus' desire in relation to Alcestis' statue and his nature as a fifth century Athenian man while exposing Alcestis as a nonidentity. She also analyzes the issues of representation and spectatorship, showing that the theatrical performance is constructed in order to function as vehicles for the satisfaction of a dominant position-that of Admetus and the spectator of the performance. |
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... in the Athenian Culture Kiki Gounaridou. Part Two Who Admetus Was Immobil stassi , e muta ; ahi , questa é l'ombra sua , ma non é dessa ! Vittorio Alfieri , Alceste , 1799 Chapter Two Her Statue and Alcestis Prometheus lights a torch.
... in the Athenian Culture Kiki Gounaridou. Part Two Who Admetus Was Immobil stassi , e muta ; ahi , questa é l'ombra sua , ma non é dessa ! Vittorio Alfieri , Alceste , 1799 Chapter Two Her Statue and Alcestis Prometheus lights a torch.
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... Prometheus lights a torch at the chariot of the Sun on Olympus and hides a piece of fire at the bottom of a fennel - stalk . He then brings it down to the people in order to settle in his favor a continuing vendetta between him and Zeus ...
... Prometheus lights a torch at the chariot of the Sun on Olympus and hides a piece of fire at the bottom of a fennel - stalk . He then brings it down to the people in order to settle in his favor a continuing vendetta between him and Zeus ...
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... Prometheus 27 , 59 Protesilaus 28 Protesilaus ( Euripides ) 59n Pseudo - Demosthenes ( Against Neaera ) 62n Pythagorean , Pythagoras 48 Pythian Odes ( Pindar ) 65n , 86n Rabinowitz , Nancy S. 16 , 42 repetition 34-35 , 47 , 57 , 78-79 ...
... Prometheus 27 , 59 Protesilaus 28 Protesilaus ( Euripides ) 59n Pseudo - Demosthenes ( Against Neaera ) 62n Pythagorean , Pythagoras 48 Pythian Odes ( Pindar ) 65n , 86n Rabinowitz , Nancy S. 16 , 42 repetition 34-35 , 47 , 57 , 78-79 ...
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