By Andreas Markantonatos, Bernhard Zimmermann
This quantity explores the relationships among masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and significant occasions of Athenian background, via bringing jointly foreign students with services on various elements of historical theatre. It increases questions about how tragic and comedian performs composed in overdue 5th century replicate the intense political and social drawback unfolding in Athens within the wake of the army disaster in 413 BCE and the oligarchic revolution in 411 BCE. it's of specific curiosity to professional classical students in addition to to these attracted to Greek drama and Athenian historical past.
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Tragedy is a serious art form. It is certainly tempting to connect these two propositions, to create readings of late Sophoclean tragedy in which their author is reacting to, and advocating strategies to deal with, contemporary circumstances. Indeed, multiple attempts, perhaps encouraged by the claim of an ancient commentator on Sophocles’ Philoctetes 99 that Sophocles is attacking contemporary politicians, have been made to read characters of the play as representative of late fifth-century public figures in Athens.
OC 1640; E. Hipp. 207; Pl. R. 329b, 440c-d. At E. Tr. 987, Hecuba commends suicide to Helen as the behaviour of a truly cemma_a woman and at 727 Talthybius instructs Andromache to endure her troubles eqcem_r. Genos, Gennaios, and Athens in the Later Tragedies of Sophocles 31 and influences his own internal character (v}sir), whose growth into nobility in the broader sense of the term is a central theme of the play: thus, to Odysseus’ request to deceive Philoctetes into coming to Troy with the Greeks, he says that neither his nor his father’s v}sir (88 – 89) can let him do this.
Thus, at E. IA 448 and Hdt. or is clearly used to denote high birth, but at E. IA 1411 and Hdt. 2, a nobility transcending mere birth must be implied. Similarly, at Hdt. 3, E. Heracl. 537, HF 357 and Ar. Ra. 1012, 1014, 1019, the term must unequivocally be used in its expanded sense. Cf. Kirkwood 1958, 177 – 179. Again, the adjective is used of the Chorus of Argive women at S. El. 127. While it could simply denote their social status, Jebb claims that it refers to their dispositions, comparing OC 1640.