›Dionysiac‹ Dialogues: Euripides' ›Bacchae‹, Aeschylus and ›Christus Patiens‹

Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou

Published by De Gruyter 2022

›Dionysiac‹ Dialogues

Euripides' ›Bacchae‹, Aeschylus and ›Christus Patiens‹

Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou

Volume 128 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110764413

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Contents

About this book

This book consists of two main, interrelated thematic units: the reception of Aeschylus' Dionysiac plays in Bacchae and the refiguration of the latter in the Byzantine drama Christus Patiens. In both sections the common denominator is Euripides' Bacchae, which is approached as a receiving text in the first unit and as a source text in the second. Each section addresses dramatic, ideological and cultural facets of the reception process, yielding insight into pivotal Dionysiac motifs that the ancient and Byzantine treatments share. Different pieces of evidence, mythographic, stylistic, and iconographic, are interrogated, so that light is shed on aspects of the storyline, the concepts, and the imagery of Aeschylus' two tetralogies. At the same time, Bacchae provides a valuable exemplum for aspects of dramatic technique, plot-patterns, and concepts refigured in Christus Patiens. This exploration thoroughly and systematically focuses on the ways in which the pagan play was transformed to bring forward new pillars of thought and innovative values in different cultural and ideological contexts over a wide time span from Greek Antiquity to Byzantium.

Author / Editor information

Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou, University of the Peloponnese, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
Introduction: Aims and Scope Publicly Available Download PDF	XIX
1 The Dionysiac Plays of Aeschylus and Euripides’ Bacchae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Euripides’ Bacchae and Christus Patiens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Appendix I: Evidence for Aeschylus’ Dionysiac Plays Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Appendix II: Main Vases Related to the Dionysiac Plays of Aeschylus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Appendix III: Christus Patiens as a Source for the Missing Part in the Exodos of Bacchae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Αppendix IV Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Index Rerum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Index Locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Index of Hapax and Rare Words in Aeschylus’ Dionysiac Tetralogies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of classical and byzantine studies, classical reception, and anyone interested in Greek drama and its reception
Pages
- Front matter: 23
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Coloured Illustrations: 7
Keywords: Classical reception; Bacchae; Aeschylus' 'Dionysiac' tetralogies; Christus Patiens

eBook

Published: March 7, 2022
ISBN: 9783110764413

Hardcover

Published: March 21, 2022
ISBN: 9783110764345