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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Florence YoonPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 344 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.435kg ISBN: 9789004229037ISBN 10: 9004229035 Pages: 178 Publication Date: 25 July 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Language: English and Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Table of ContentsREFERENCES AND ABBREVIATIONS................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION: WHAT'S IN A NAME? .......................................................................... 7 I. CLASSES .......................................................................................................................16 1. Personal servants .............................................................................................17 Nurses and Tutors ...................................................................................21 2. Other servants .................................................................................................32 Heralds ....................................................................................................32 3. Priests ..............................................................................................................37 4. Children ..........................................................................................................44 II. INDIVIDUALS ...............................................................................................................54 1. Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they say ...............57 1.1 Prologizomenoi: ................................................................................57 a) The Watchman (Agamemnon) ................................................57 b) The Nurse and the Tutor (Medea) ..........................................59 1.2 Eteocles and his Scout (Septem) ........................................................64 1.3 Agamemnon and the Herald (Agamemnon) ......................................66 1.4 Admetus and the Servants (Alcestis) ................................................71 2. Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by their dialogue ...............75 2.1 Creon and the Watchman (Antigone) ................................................75 2.2 Deianeira and the Messenger (Trachiniae) .......................................81 2.3 Orestes, Electra, and the Tutor (S. Electra) ......................................83 2.4 Iolaus, Alcmene and the Servant of Hyllus (Heracleidae) ...............89 2.5 Hippolytus and the Old Man (Hippolytus) .......................................93 2.6 Andromache and her suvndoulo~ (Andromache) ..............................96 2.7 Electra, Orestes, and the Old Tutor (E. Electra) ...............................99 2.8 Menelaus and the Doorkeeper (Helen) ...........................................104 2.9 Orestes and the Phrygian Slave (Orestes) .......................................108 3. Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they do................113 3.1 Phaedra and her Nurse (Hippolytus) ...............................................115 3.2 Creousa and the Old Tutor (Ion) .....................................................122 3.3 Agamemnon and the Old Servant (IA) ............................................128 4. Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they are ..............131 4.1 Electra and the Autourgos (E. Electra) ...........................................131 4.2 Eurystheus and his Herald (Heracleidae) .......................................143 4.3 The Egyptians and their Herald? (A. Supplices and Aegyptioi) .....151 III. SPECIAL CASES .........................................................................................................160 1. The Persian Queen: the anonymity of a historical figure .............................160 2. Cilissa: anonymously named ........................................................................171 3. The Slave of Loxias in Ion: naming an anonymous character ......................175 IV. CONTRASTS AND COMPARISONS ...............................................................................183 1. Epic: Homer and Hesiod ...............................................................................183 2. Aristophanic Comedy: the khdesthv~ in Thesmophoriazusae........................188 3. A brief note on later tragedy ..........................................................................196 CONCLUSION ..................................................................................................................199 WORKS CITED.................................................................................................................204ReviewsThis user-friendly book gains our confidence through its sensitive close readings of a range of Greek tragedies. [...] Yoon's book will be of value to students of Greek tragedy. Those interested in narratological matters will benefit as well. [...] [the] book intersects with the study of minor characters and, therefore, the study of characters and characterization more broadly in fields beyond Classics. Yet, this intersection is accidental. The implied reader of this book is a classicist: Greek passages are not translated into English, and there is scarcely any engagement with scholarship on character or characterization that is not by classicists. I fear that this useful book will not receive the wide readership outside Classics that it deserves. We can resolve to spread the word. Jonathan L. Ready in BMCR, (7 May 2013) Author InformationFlorence Yoon, D.Phil. (2008) in Classics, University of Oxford, is Assistant Professor in Greek Language and Literature at the University of British Columbia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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