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Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy (Oxford Classical Monographs) - Hardcover
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Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism are some of the images used by Athenian tragedians to define the non-Greek, "barbarian" world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their singular fascination with barbarians. Edith Hall sets the Greek plays against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars, and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy and slavery. Analyzed within the context of contemporary anthropology and political philosophy, Hall reveals how the poets conceptualized the barbarian as the negative embodiment of Athenian civic ideals. She compares the treatment of foreigners in Homer and in tragedy, showing that the new dimension which the idea of the barbarian had brought to the tragic theater radically affected the poets' interpretation of myth and their evocation of the distant past, as well as enriching their reportoire of aural and visual effects. Hall argues that the invented barbarian of the tragic stage was a powerful cultural expression of Greek xenophobia and chauvinism that, paradoxically, produced and outburst of creative energy and literary innovation.
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Edith Hall is at University of Reading.
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"A remarkably detailed and comprehensive study of the ways in which barbarians are conceptualized in ancient Greek texts, especially in tragedy....This is a highly useful and scholarly text."--Choice
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 019814895X
- ISBN 13 9780198148951
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages294
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Condition: Sehr Gut. Zustandsbeschreibung: textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, berieben mit leichter Randlädierung/clean text pages, minor traces of use, rubbed with slight damage to the edge. Greek Self-definition Through Tragedy. The aim of the treatise is to explain the singular fascination ancient Greek tragedians felt for the non-Greek, "barbaric" world. Edith Hall sets Greek drama against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars with Persia and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy and slavery. The plays are also set in the context of contemporary anthropology and political philosophy, thus revealing how the poets conceptualized the barbarian as the negative embodiment of Athenian civic ideals. By comparing the treatment of foreigners in Homer and tragedy, the author explains how the new dimension which the idea of the barbarian brought to the Greek tragic theatre radically affected the poets' interpretation of myth and their evocation of the distant past. XVI,277 Seiten, gebunden (Oxford Classical Monographs/Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press 1989). Gewicht: 494 g - Gebunden/Gebundene Ausgabe - Sprache: Englisch. Seller Inventory # 501489
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Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy (Oxford Classical Monographs)
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