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Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy (Hardcover, New)
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Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Sather Classical Lectures, 62
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Modern readings of ancient Athenian drama tend to view it as a
presentation of social or moral problems, as if ancient drama
showed the same realism seen on the present-day stage. Such views
are belied by the plays themselves, in which supremely violent
actions occur in a legendary time and place distinct both from
reality and from the ethics of ordinary life. Offering fresh
readings of Attic tragedy, Anne Pippin Burnett urges readers to
peel away twentieth-century attitudes toward vengeance and
reconsider the revenge tragedies of ancient Athens in their own
context.
After a consideration of how our view of Elizabethan drama has
obscured an accurate view of the ancient tragedies, Burnett reviews
early Greek notions of vengeance as expressed in the "Odyssey,"
Heracles' tales, Pindar's odes, Attic judicial processes, and the
legend of Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Then, setting aside
post-Platonic and Judeo-Christian notions of criminality, she
provides new interpretations of all the Attic tragedies in which
revenge is a central theme: Aeschylus' "Libation Bearers,"
Sophocles' "Ajax, Electra, and Tereus," and Euripides' "Children of
Heracles, Hecuba, Medea, Electra," and "Orestes."
Burnett shows that for the ancients, revenge meant a redress of
imbalances in both human and divine worlds, achieved through human
actions. The vengeful heroines thus appear in a new light. Electra,
Hecuba, Medea, and others cease to be the picture of depravity in
dramas that are grotesque and sensational, and are instead
representative human figures who respond with grandeur to the
outsize demands of necessity and supernatural powers.
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