cover cover next page > title : Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy Sather Classical Lectures ; V. 62 author : Burnett, Anne Pippin. publisher : University of California Press isbn10 | asin : 0520210964 print isbn13 : 9780520210967 ebook isbn13 : 9780585160191 language : English subject Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism, Revenge in literature. publication date : 1998 lcc : PA3136.B79 1998eb ddc : 882/.0109 subject : Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism, Revenge in literature. cover next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/cover.html [19.05.2009 00:31:25] cover-0 < previous page cover-0 next page > The Joan Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature In honor of beloved Virgil "O degli altri poeti onore e lume . . ." Dante, Inferno < previous page cover-0 next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/cover-0.html [19.05.2009 00:31:27] page_i < previous page page_i next page > Page i Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy < previous page page_i next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/page_i.html [19.05.2009 00:31:28] page_ii < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii SATHER CLASSICAL LECTURES Volume Sixty-Two < previous page page_ii next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/page_ii.html [19.05.2009 00:31:28] page_iii < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy Anne Pippin Burnett UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY · LOS · ANGELES · LONDON < previous page page_iii next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/page_iii.html [19.05.2009 00:31:28] page_iv < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv The publisher gratefully acknowledges the contribution to this book provided by the Joan Palevsky Endowment in Classical Literature. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 1998 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Burnett, Anne Pippin, 1925- Revenge in Attic and later tragedy / Anne Pippin Burnett. p. cm. (Sather classical lectures; v. 62) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-21096-4 (cloth) 1. Greek drama (Tragedy)History and criticism. 2. Revenge in literature. I. Title. II. Series. PA3136.B79 1997 882'.0109dc21 97-22677 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. < previous page page_iv next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/page_iv.html [19.05.2009 00:31:29] page_v < previous page page_v next page > Page v for Ralph and for Michael < previous page page_v next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/page_v.html [19.05.2009 00:31:30] page_vii < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii "You will see the characters of the true story clearly, as if luminous and on a higher plane, and at the same time they may not look quite human, and you may well be a little afraid of them. . . ." "O God," said the lady. "What you call the divine art seems to me a hard and cruel game, which maltreats and mocks its human beings." ISAK DINESEN, "THE CARDINAL'S FIRST TALE," LAST TALES On this visit di Grasso played King Lear, Othello, Civil Death, Turgenev's The Parasite, confirming with every gesture that there is more justice in outbursts of noble passion than in all the joyless rules that run the world. ISAAK BABEL, "DI GRASSO," TALES OF ODESSA < previous page page_vii next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/page_vii.html [19.05.2009 00:31:30] page_ix < previous page page_ix next page > Page ix Contents Note on Abbreviations xi Preface xiii 1. Huge Frenzy and Quaint Malice: Seneca and the English Renaissance 1 2. Odysseus, Pindar's Heracles, and the Tyrannicides 33 3. Festival Vengeance: Euripides' Cyclops and Sophocles' Ajax 65 4. Ritualized Revenge: Aeschylus' Choephori 99 5. Delphic Matricide: Sophocles' Electra 119 6. Women Doing Men's Work: Euripides' Children of Heracles and Hecuba 142 7. Child-Killing Mothers: Sophocles' Tereus 177 8. Connubial Revenge: Euripides' Medea 192 9. The Women's Quarters: Euripides' Electra 225 10. Philanthropic Revenge: Euripides' Orestes 247 Appendix: Medea's Monologue 273 Index of Classical Authors and Titles and Biblical Citations 289 Genereal Index 293 < previous page page_ix next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/page_ix.html [19.05.2009 00:31:31] page_xi < previous page page_xi next page > Page xi Note on Abbreviations Names of authors and fides of works are abbreviated in accordance with the list in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3d ed. (1996), pp. xxix-liv. < previous page page_xi next page > file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Elif/Desktop/e-book/Yeni%20Klasör/0520210964/files/page_xi.html [19.05.2009 00:31:32]

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