The use of anonymous characters in Greek tragedy : the shaping of heroes
| 1. Verfasser: |
Yoon, Florence, 1981-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xii, 178 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
v. 344. |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Classes: Personal servants
- Nurses and tutors
- Other servants
- Heralds
- Priests
- Children
- Individuals: Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they say
- Prologizomenoi
- Eteocles and his scout (Septem)
- Agamemnon and the herald (Agamemnon)
- Admetus and the servants (Alcestis)
- Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by their dialogue
- Creon and the watchman (Antigone)
- Deianeira and the messenger (Trachiniae)
- Orestes and the tutor (S. Electra)
- Iolaus, Alcmene and the servant of Hyllus (Heracleidae)
- Hippolytus and the old man (Hippolytus)
- Andromache and her "syndoulos" (Andromache)
- Electra, Orestes, and the old tutor (E. Electra)
- Menelaus and the doorkeeper (Helen)
- Orestes and the Phrygian slave (Orestes)
- Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they do
- Phaedra and her nurse (Hippolytus)
- Creousa and the old tutor (Ion)
- Agamemnon and the old servant (Ia)
- Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they are
- Electra and the autourgos (E. Electra)
- Heracles and his daughter (Heracleidae)
- Eurystheus and his herald (Heracleidae)
- The Egyptians and their herald (A. Supplices and Aegyptioi)
- Special cases: The Persian queen: the anonymity of a historical figure
- Cilissa: anonymously named
- The slave of Loxias in Ion: naming an anonymous character
- Contrasts and comparisons: Epic: Homer and Hesiod
- Aristophanic comedy: the "kedestes" in Thesmophoriazusae
- A brief note on later tragedy.
