Mapping Politics: An Investigation of Deme Theatres in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E.
Mapping Politics: An Investigation of Deme Theatres in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries B.C.E. Jessica Paga (Princeton University) Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics:…
Mapping Politics: An Investigation of Deme Theatres in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries
Mapping Politics: An Investigation of Deme Theatres in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries Paga, Jessica Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics, February 2009 Abstract…
Song and the Solitary Self: Euripidean Women Who Resist Comfort
Song and the Solitary Self: Euripidean Women Who Resist Comfort By
APOLLO AND HIS PURPOSE IN SOPHOCLES
Apollo actively intervenes in the fulfilment of Oedipus’ destiny through oracles and immanently in the onstage action. Rather than to punish him for any offence, the god’s purpose appears to be to impress upon Oedipus his existential insignificance. In the context of an ordered but absurd universe, Sophocles emphasises the paradox of the moral greatness of a man whose ‘official’ existential value is less than zero.
POMPEY’S POLITICS AND THE PRESENTATION OF HIS THEATRE-TEMPLE COMPLEX, 61–52 BCE
In spite of all this triumph Pompey also returned to Rome under unfavourable conditions. The majority of the senate did not respect the great general. He came from a recent noble family of late distinction, he did not rise through the ranks of the cursus honorum in the venerable Roman tradition, and he was not familiar with the protocol of the Roman senate…
HEARD AND UNHEARD STROPHES IN THE PARODOS OF AESCHYLUS
In this paper I would like to suggest a metrical interpretation of the parodos of the Theban girls in Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes. I shall begin with the metrical part, then I should like to take a closer look at the semantic impact of this interpretation and, instead of a conclusion, show how this proposal would fit into the whole context of the play.
WORD-ENDS AND METRICAL BOUNDARIES IN ANCIENT IAMBIC TRIMETER OF COMEDY
The main purpose of the analysis is to study the relationship between metrical boundaries in deep structure and word-ends in surface structures that occur when the meter is realised.