TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pucci,Pietro
TI  - Euripides' Revolution under Cover: An Essay
T2  - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology Series
SN  - 9781501704055
AV  - PA3978 
U1  - 882/.01 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Anthropomorphism in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Euripides's Revolution under Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Euripides's Poetic Game and Law of Composition -- 2. Anthropomorphism -- 3. The Protection of the Self and the Role of Sophia -- 4. Some Connotations of Sophia -- 5. Polyneices's Truth -- 6. Hecuba's Rhetoric -- 7. Eros in Euripides's Poetics: Sex as the Cause of the Trojan War -- 8. The Lewd Gaze of the Eye -- 9. The Power of Love: Who Is Aphrodite? -- 10. Phaedra -- 11. Hermione: The Andromache -- 12. Female Victims of War: The Troades -- 13. The Survival in Poetry -- 14. Figures of Metalepsis: The Invention of "Literature" -- 15. The Failure of Politics in Euripides's Poetics: Politics in the Suppliant Women -- 16. Political Philosophy: A Universal Program of Peace and Progress -- 17. How to Deliberate a War -- 18. Democracy and Monarchy -- 19. The Battle -- 20. The Rescue of the Corpses -- 21. Return to Arms -- 22. The Polis's Loss of Control and Authority -- 23. The Bacchants' Gospel and the Greek City -- 24. Pentheus and Teiresias -- 25. Dionysus's Revenge: First Round -- 26. Revenge Prepares Its Murderous Weapon -- 27. Initiation and Sacrifice -- 28. Victory and Defeat -- 29. Euripides's Poetry -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Index Locorum
N2  - In this provocative book, Pietro Pucci explores what he sees as Euripides's revolutionary literary art. While scholars have long pointed to subversive elements in Euripides's plays, Pucci goes a step further in identifying a Euripidean program of enlightened thought enacted through carefully wrought textual strategies
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