Tragedies

Tragedies
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781340962050

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The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound

The Authenticity of Prometheus Bound
Author: Mark Griffith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2007-07-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521038140

Prometheus Bound was accepted without question in antiquity as the work of Aeschylus, and most modern authorities endorse this ascription. But since the nineteenth century several leading scholars have come to doubt Aeschylean authorship. Dr Griffith here provides a thorough and wide-ranging study of this problem, and concludes: 'Had Prometheus Bound been newly dug up from the sands of Oxyrhynchus... few scholars would regard it as the work of Aeschylus.' After a preliminary assessment of the external evidence, Dr Griffith examines minutely the idiosyncrasies of metre, dramatic technique, vocabulary, syntax and expression to be found in the play, applying the same tests to other plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in order to provide a control for his methods. In his final chapter he discusses how the conditions surrounding the ancient transmission and cataloguing of texts may have led to the ascription to Aeschylus.

›Prometheus Bound‹ - A Separate Authorial Trace in the Aeschylean Corpus

›Prometheus Bound‹ - A Separate Authorial Trace in the Aeschylean Corpus
Author: Nikos Manousakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-05-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110687674

Classics, Computer Science, and Linguistics are brought together in this book, in an attempt to provide an answer to the authorship question concerning Prometheus Bound, a disputed play in the Aeschylean corpus, by applying some well-established Computer Stylistics methods. One of the main objectives of Stylometry, which, broadly speaking, is the study of quantified style, is Authorship Attribution. In its traditional form it can range from manually calculating descriptive statistics to the use of computer-assisted methodologies. However, non-traditional Authorship Attribution drastically changed the field. It brought together modern Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence applications (machine learning, natural language processing), and its key characteristic is that it aims at developing fully-automated systems for the attribution of texts of unknown authorship. In this book the author employs a series of supervised and unsupervised techniques used in non-traditional Authorship Attribution–applied here for the first time in ancient drama. The outcome of the analysis indicates a significant distance between the disputed text and the secure plays of Aeschylus, but also various interesting (micro-linguistic) ties of affinity with other authors, especially Sophocles and Euripides.

Three Greek Plays

Three Greek Plays
Author:
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1958-11
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780393002034

Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.

Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2004-08-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0141961716

Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his father. Medea is the terrible story of a woman's bloody revenge on her adulterous husband through the murder of her own children.

In the House of My Fear

In the House of My Fear
Author: Joel Agee
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2006-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781593761080

Drugs, madness, and a quest for enlightenment are Joel Agee's inheritance from the 1960s. Now sober, he recounts his adventures and knows the ghosts of past terrors--his own and his brother's, who died by his own hand at the age of 27--are still trapped and crying for release. To find them, he must write his way into the house of his fear.

Prometheus Bound

Prometheus Bound
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Mythology, Greek
ISBN: 9780943742199

This book includes two works: 1. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, translated by Thomas Medwin & Percy Bysshe Shellsy, and 2. Prometheus Unbound by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Prometheus Trilogy

Prometheus Trilogy
Author: Aeschylus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2015-01-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781941667064

Henry David Thoreau's translation of "Prometheus Bound" was published in 1843 in the "Dial," the most important magazine of the American transcendentalist movement. This edition makes it available to a wide audience in book form for the first time. This edition also includes descriptions and fragments of the other two plays of Aeschylus' Prometheus trilogy. "Prometheus Bound" has been one of the most influential of the classical Greek tragedies, inspiring poems by Goethe, Shelly, Byron and others. But it is often misunderstood, because it is read in isolation. Read by itself, "Prometheus Bound" seems to tell the story of Prometheus' heroic resistance to Zeus' tyranny. But when we read the entire trilogy, we can see that the relation between Zeus and Prometheus is far more complex. "Prometheus Bound" has always been considered one of the greatest Greek tragedies-and this book lets us see that the Prometheus trilogy as a whole is more powerful than this one play. This edition includes an introduction by the great classical scholar, Nikolaus Wecklein, which has long been out of print. It also includes commentary by Charles Siegel, which makes an important new contribution to scholarship about reconstructing the Prometheus trilogy.

Twelve Years

Twelve Years
Author: Joel Agee
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1981
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780374279585

An account of the author's years as an increasingly dissatisfied Free German Youth in East Germany, from his arrival there--at age eight--with his American mother and German Communist stepfather to his return to America in 1960.