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1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Death, myth and drama before the plague -- Chapter 3 Materials i: The language of disease in tragedy -- The rarity of loimos in tragedy -- The use of nosos in tragedy -- Aeschylus and nosos -- Nosos in sophocles and euripides -- Aristophanic comedy and the plague -- Medicine, politics and tragic drama -- Chapter 4 Plague, cult and drama: Euripides' Hippolytus -- Chapter 5 Oedipus and the plague -- Chapter 6 The Trachiniae and the plague -- Dating problems -- A parody of heracles in the clouds -- Heracles as plague victim -- The plague and the apotheosis of heracles -- Music, closure and cult -- Sophocles, heracles and athenian imperialism -- Chapter 7 Materials ii: The cult of Asclepius and the Theater of Dionysus -- Asclepius and the god of theater -- The uniqueness of the athenian asklepieion -- Asklepieion-theater configurations in other poleis -- Chapter 8 Disease and stasis in Euripidean drama: Tragic pharmacology on the south slope of the Acropolis -- Sickness and stasis in euripides' heracles -- Nosological imagery in euripidean drama -- Nosos in the phoenissae -- Pharmakon sôtr̊ias -- Heracles ii: text and context -- Tragic drama, scapegoating and ostracism -- Chapter 9 The Athenian Asklepieion and the end of the Philoctetes -- Lemnos and athens -- Sophocles' philoctetes and athenian cults -- Asclepius and asklepieion: remapping the action of the philoctetes -- Poetry and performance -- Sophocles' philoctetes and the athens of 409 bce -- Epilogue: philoctetes, freedom and the threat of tyranny in 410 -- Chapter 10 Conclusions and afterthoughts -- Works Cited -- Index -- Last Page. |
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Subject |
Aesculapius (Roman deity) -- Cult.
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Aesculapius (Roman deity) |
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Cults. |
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
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Greek drama (Tragedy) |
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Themes, motives -- History.
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Themes, motives. |
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History. |
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Literature and society -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
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Literature and society. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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Drama -- Social aspects -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
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Drama -- Social aspects. |
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Plague in literature.
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Plague in literature. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Mitchell-Boyask, Robin, 1961- Plague and the Athenian imagination. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2008271808 |
ISBN |
0511378041 (electronic book) |
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9780511378935 (electronic book) |
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0511378939 (electronic book) |
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9780511378041 (electronic book) |
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9786611243470 |
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661124347X |
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0521873452 (Cloth) |
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9780521873451 (hardcover) |
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