Nothing is as it Seems

Nothing is as it Seems
Author: Hanna Roisman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780847690930

In this valuable book, Hanna M. Roisman provides a uniquely comprehensive look at Euripides' Hippolytus. Roisman begins with an examination of the ancient preference for the implicit style, and suggests a possible reading of Euripides' first treatment of the myth which would account for the Athenian audience's reservations about his Hippolytus Veiled. She proceeds to analyze significant scenes in the play, including Hippolytus' prayer to Artemis, Phaedra's delirium, Phaedra's "confession" speech, and the interactions between Theseus and Hippolytus. Concluding with a discussion of the meaning of the tragic in Hippolytus, Roisman questions the applicability in this case of the idea of the tragic flaw. Nothing Is as It Seems includes extensive comparisons of Euripides' play with the Phaedra of Seneca. This is a very important book for students and scholars of Greek tragedy, literature, and rhetoric.

Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology

Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman Mythology
Author: Luke Roman
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 561
Release: 2010
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1438126395

Greek and Roman mythology has fascinated people for more than two millennia, and its influence on cultures throughout Europe, America, North Africa, and the Middle East attests to the universal appeal of the stories. This title examines the best-known figures of Greek and Roman mythology together with the great works of classic literature.

Euripides

Euripides
Author: Sophie Mills
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006
Genre: Greek drama
ISBN: 9781472539755

"Hippolytus is generally acknowledged to be one of Euripides' finest tragedies, for the construction of its plot, its use of language and its memorable characterisations of Phaedra and Hippolytus. Furthermore, it asks serious and disturbing questions about the influence of divinity on human lives. Sophie Mills considers these and many other themes in detail, setting the play in its mythological, cultural and historical contexts. She also includes discussions of major trends in interpretations of the play and of subsequent adaptations of the Hippolytus story, from Seneca to Mary Renault and beyond."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Hippolytus and the Roman Church in the Third Century

Hippolytus and the Roman Church in the Third Century
Author: Allen Brent
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004102453

An analysis of the hierarchical tensions witnessed by the Hippolytan literature in early third century Rome, in a period critical both for the development of Church Order and embryonic Trinitarian orthodoxy. Tertullian's relationship with Callistus is re-assessed.

Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece

Rites of Passage in Ancient Greece
Author: Mark William Padilla
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1999
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780838754184

This volume reflects on liminality as it relates to initiatory themes in Greek literature and on literary works, especially tragedy, that represent heroes and heroines undergoing rites of passage. Featured works include Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, Euripides' Ion and Iphigenia in Tauris, and Sophocles' Antigone and Women of Trachis.

Phaedra

Phaedra
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1986
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780801494338

Phaedra is a Roman tragedy written by philosopher and dramatist Lucius Annaeus Seneca before 54 A.D. Its 1280 lines of verse tell the story of Phaedra, wife of King Theseus of Athens and her consuming lust for her stepson, Hippolytus. Based on Greek Mythology and the tragedy Hippolytus by Greek playwright Euripides, Seneca's Phaedra is one of several artistic explorations of this tragic story. Seneca portrays Phaedra as self-aware and direct in the pursuit of her stepson, while in other treatments of the myth she is more of a passive victim of fate. This Phaedra takes on the scheming nature and the cynicism often assigned to the Nurse character.

The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama

The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama
Author: John E. Thorburn
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0816074984

Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.

An Essay on the Tragic

An Essay on the Tragic
Author: Peter Szondi
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780804743952

This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle.