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<p>This work challenges recent critical assessments that emphasize the allegedly subversive elements in Euripides' play. The <i>Orestes</i> is found to present a curious mélange of early and late Euripidean features, resulting in a drama where the tragic potential of Orestes' predicament becomes lost amid the moral, political and situational chaos that dominates the late Euripidean stage. Throughout, emphasis is placed on reading the <i>Orestes</i> in light of Greek stage conventions and the poet's own practice. Of particular interest are: an original examination, in light of Greek rhetorical practice, of Orestes' agon with Tyndareus; an analysis of the Phrygian's monody as a cunning hybrid of Timothean <i>nome</i> and traditional messenger speech; and a re-evaluation of the play's troubling deus ex machina.</p>

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Author

John R Porter, philologue

Publisher

E.J. Brill; Brill Academic Pub

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004096622

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction