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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... hospitality , conceals his bereavement from the distinguished visitor whom he invites to stay in his palace ... hospitality . Having for a while let Admetus struggle ... Heracles finally unveils the mysterious stranger and gives her back ...
... hospitality , conceals his bereavement from the distinguished visitor whom he invites to stay in his palace ... hospitality . Having for a while let Admetus struggle ... Heracles finally unveils the mysterious stranger and gives her back ...
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... hospitality Euripides is reflecting a fundamental custom of Greek society which Admetus rightfully honors ; moreover , the Pheres scene is not meant to undermine the positive evaluation of Admetus , but to make him into a more complex ...
... hospitality Euripides is reflecting a fundamental custom of Greek society which Admetus rightfully honors ; moreover , the Pheres scene is not meant to undermine the positive evaluation of Admetus , but to make him into a more complex ...
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... hospitality as the ethical theme of the play , without , however , denying its ironic essence -- Admetus , in the very fulfillment of hospitality which wins Alcestis back , betrays his promise of fidelity to her.97 Dyson ( 1988 ) ...
... hospitality as the ethical theme of the play , without , however , denying its ironic essence -- Admetus , in the very fulfillment of hospitality which wins Alcestis back , betrays his promise of fidelity to her.97 Dyson ( 1988 ) ...
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