V drami Herkul na Ojti (Hercules Oetaeus), Seneki pripisani dramski upodobitvi zgodbe o Herkulu in Dejanejri, zasledimo jasno razpoznavne poteze stoiške filozofije. Najbolj očiten pokazatelj tega je ...izpostavljen dramski položaj Herkulove apoteoze, s čimer ta drama pridobi izrazit metafizično-kozmični značaj. Toda kljub temu da je ta filozofska poanta bistveno bolj neposredno poudarjena kot v Sofoklovih Trahinkah, ki so nedvomno bile temeljni literarni zgled drame, ne smemo zanemariti psiholoških uvidov, povezanih predvsem z Dejanejrinim odzivom na Iolin prihod. Tu smo priče pravemu labirintu čustev, ki prihaja na dan v dolgih monologih in burnih dialogih, ki nam slikajo kompleksno Dejanejrino notranjost. V težkem bivanjskem položaju se je odločila za usodno dejanje in z njim zadala Herkulu smrtno rano. S tem pa ne umira samo njen mož, ampak, kot pravi sama, tudi rešitelj in branitelj sveta. Lik Herkula v drami namreč presega meje človeške individualnosti, saj povsem v skladu s stoiško mislijo v sebi povezuje posamezno in kozmično. Njegova zadnja in največja preizkušnja je soočenje z lastno smrtjo – to je poslednji preizkus njegovega herojstva, preizkus, ki mu naposled prinese apoteozo, po kateri je goreče hrepenel.
Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was
it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative,
even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model?
This ...book reveals Epizephyrian Locri--a Greek colony on the
Adriatic coast of Italy--as a third way in Greek culture, neither
Athens nor Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and
archaeological evidence, James Redfield offers a fascinating
account of this poorly understood Greek city-state, and in
particular the distinctive role of women and marriage therein.
Redfield devotes much of the book to placing Locri within a more
general account of Greek culture, particularly with the institution
of marriage in relation to private property, sexual identity, and
the fate of the soul. He begins by considering the annual practice
of sending two maidens from old-world Locris, the putative place of
origin of the Italian Locrians, to serve in the temple of Athena at
Ilion, finding here some key themes of Locrian culture. He goes on
to provide a richly detailed overview of the Italian city; in a set
of iconographic essays he suggests that marriage was seen in Locri
as a life transformation akin to the eternal bliss hoped for after
death. Nothing less than a general reevaluation of classical Greek
society in both its political and theological dimensions, The
Locrian Maidens is must reading for students and scholars of
classics, while remaining accessible and of particular interest to
those in women's studies and to anyone seeking a broader
understanding of ancient Greece.
Il libro raccoglie i contributi presentati nel corso del primo Seminario internazionale METra (Mapping Epic in Tragedy – Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura) svoltosi nel maggio del 2021 presso ...l’Università degli Studi di Verona. Il fine di questo volume – e del progetto da cui prende le mosse – è sondare i confini della ricca e frastagliata eredità dell’epica greca arcaica (in primis Omero) nel dramma attico. Tale eredità viene qui indagata secondo direttrici molteplici e multidisciplinari: dall’analisi linguistica e metrica all’esegesi filologica, stilistico-letteraria e drammaturgica, dalle prospettive della ricerca antropologica e storico-religiosa a quelle della storia culturale e delle idee. I saggi costituiscono – per quanto in modo inevitabilmente parziale – una prima, provvisoria ma già estesa mappatura delle fertili, continue e innovative rivisitazioni in chiave drammatica del patrimonio mitico, linguistico e culturale dell’epica messe in opera dai grandi tragediografi del V secolo a.C.
Before Sexuality Zeitlin, Froma I; Winkler, John J; Halperin, David M
2020, 1990, 2020-11-10
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A dream in which a man has sex with his mother may promise him political or commercial success--according to dream interpreters of late antiquity, who, unlike modern Western analysts, would not ...necessarily have drawn conclusions from the dream about the dreamer's sexual psychology. Evidence of such shifts in perspective is leading scholars to reconsider in a variety of creative ways the history of sexuality. In these fifteen original essays, eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time. Ancient Greece offers abundant evidence for a radically different set of sexual standards and behaviors from ours. Sex in ancient Hellenic culture assumed a variety of social and political meanings, whereas the modern development of a sex-centered model of personality now leads us to view sex as the key to understanding the individual. Drawing on both the Anglo-American tradition of cultural anthropology and the French tradition of les sciences humaines, these essays explore the iconography, politics, ethics, poetry, and medical practices that made sex in ancient Greece not a paradise of liberation but an exotic locale hardly recognizable to visitors from the modern world. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Peter Brown, Anne Carson, Franoise Frontisi-Ducroux, Maud W. Gleason, Ann Ellis Hanson, Franois Lissarrague, Nicole Loraux, Maurice Olender, S.R.F. Price, James Redfield, Giulia Sissa, and Jean-Pierre Vernant.
This chapter is focused, in the first part, on the character of Deianeira, especially on her relationship with Achelous, Nessus, and Heracles and how she deals with them. The consequences of these ...relations are negative, as her name implies (“killer of men”). They are defeated or killed. However, some authors exonerate Deianeira of culpability for Heracles’ death. The death of Heracles and his following apotheosis are examined in the second part. Once he is burned both by the poisoned tunic and the pyre, Heracles’ afterlife is located both in Hades (his mortal part) and with the gods (his immortal part), among whom he enjoys a second youth and a marriage to Hebe, as a prize for his worldly sufferings. Finally, the chapter ends with an analysis of Deianeira’s associations with magic.
This chapter briefly discusses aspects of the material culture of seventh-century
bce
Boiotia in general and makes specific reference to sites and areas of relevance in studying Hesiod, in particular ...Askra, Thespiai, the Valley of the Muses, Thebes, Plataiai, and Akraiphnia. It pays special attention to the sanctuary of Apollo on the Ismenion hill and to the Herakleion in Thebes, the sanctuary of the hero Herakles, who was worshipped there as an epichoric figure, and discusses inscriptions and finds from these two sites. The chapter also offers a view of Boiotia and of the environs of Thebes in particular as an early Greek center for artistic production during the time of Hesiod, as shown through vase painting, figurines, early writing, sculpture, and an artist’s signature.
Merian, Matthew <the Elder>. Hercules and Antaeus, Deianeira, five acts of Hercules, Hercules and the river god Achelous as a bull. Illustration for J. L. Gottfried: Excerpts on Metamorphoses of the ...Ovid, p. 209. etching; approx. 13.6 x 9.1 cm. Frankfurt, 1641. Dresden: Copper engraving cabinet A 9596 in A 189 b, 2
J. L. Gottfried: Excerpts on Metamorphoses of the Ovid, p. 209 (publication)
Merian, Matthäus <der Ältere>. Hercules und Antaeus, Deianeira, fünf Taten des Hercules, Hercules und der Flußgott Achelous als Stier. Illustration zu J. L. Gottfried: Textauszüge zu Metamorphosen des Ovid, S. 209. Radierung; ca. 13,6 x 9,1 cm. Frankfurt, 1641. Dresden: Kupferstich-Kabinett A 9596 in A 189 b, 2
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J. L. Gottfried: Textauszüge zu Metamorphosen des Ovid, S. 209 (Veröffentlichung)
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