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From Agent to Spectator - Witnessing the Aftermath in Ancient Greek Epic and Tragedy (Hardcover, Digital original)
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From Agent to Spectator - Witnessing the Aftermath in Ancient Greek Epic and Tragedy (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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This book looks at witnesses to suffering and death in ancient
Greek epic (Homer's Iliad) and tragedy. Internal spectators abound
in both genres, and have received due scholarly attention. The
present monograph covers new ground by dealing with a specific
subset of characters: those who are put in the position of
spectator to (and, often, commentator on) their own deed(s). By
their very nature, protagonists are confined to the role of witness
to the suffering (or deaths) they have caused only for brief
stretches of time - often a single scene or even just the length of
a speech - but every instance is of central importance, not just to
our understanding of the characters in question, but also to the
articulation of fundamental themes within the poetic works under
examination. As they shift from the status of agent to that of
witness, these protagonists, qua spectators to the consequences of
their actions, give voice to, dramatize, and enact the tragic
motifs of human helplessness and mortal fallibility that lie at the
core of Homeric epic and Greek tragedy and that define the human
condition, in a manner that leads the audience looking on to ponder
their own.
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