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Euripides and the Politics of Form
Victoria Wohl
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Description for Euripides and the Politics of Form
Hardback. Series: Martin Classical Lectures. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 2AHA; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 343 x 283 x 26. Weight in Grams: 502.
How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a new approach to the aesthetics and politics of Greek tragedy, Victoria Wohl argues that the poetic form of Euripides' drama constitutes a mode of political thought. Through readings of select plays, she explores the politics of Euripides' radical aesthetics, showing how formal innovation generates political passions with real-world consequences. Euripides' plays have ... Read more
How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a new approach to the aesthetics and politics of Greek tragedy, Victoria Wohl argues that the poetic form of Euripides' drama constitutes a mode of political thought. Through readings of select plays, she explores the politics of Euripides' radical aesthetics, showing how formal innovation generates political passions with real-world consequences. Euripides' plays have ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Martin Classical Lectures
Condition
New
Weight
502g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691166506
SKU
V9780691166506
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About Victoria Wohl
Victoria Wohl is professor of classics at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Intimate Commerce: Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity in Greek Tragedy, Love among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens (Princeton), and Law's Cosmos: Juridical Discourse in Athenian Forensic Oratory. She is also the editor of Probabilities, Hypotheticals, and Counterfactuals in Ancient Greek Thought. ... Read more
Reviews for Euripides and the Politics of Form
Wohl is a careful reader of Euripides and she advances cogent observations and arguments, many about more than just the formal aspects of his plays.
Choice An important and thoughtful analysis of the relationship between politics and aesthetic form in a select number of Euripidean plays... An insightful study that is accessible to students and rewarding for scholars. It ... Read more
Choice An important and thoughtful analysis of the relationship between politics and aesthetic form in a select number of Euripidean plays... An insightful study that is accessible to students and rewarding for scholars. It ... Read more