The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women that issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of his interpretation, N.T. Croally is able to offer a coherent view on a number of long-standing problems in Euripidean criticism, such as the relation of Euripides to the Sophists.
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"...a learned and far-ranging book....[a] wealth of useful material....[a] truly impressive range of issues..." Classical Views
"An extensive bibliography, general index, and index of passages cited complete this careful and thoughtful study. Recommended for undergraduate and graduate libraries." Religious Studies Review
"It shows on every page the influence of the work of scholars like Loraux, Vernant and Zeitlin, but unlike many studies that share this pedigree, it is lucidly written and free of irritating jargon. Indeed, it can be safely recommended to those classicists who are somehow uneasily aware that naive positivism has died, but who are too embarassed to ask what has taken its place." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"An extensive bibliography, general index, and index of passages cited complete this careful and thoughtful study. Recommended for undergraduate and graduate libraries." Religious Studies Review
"It shows on every page the influence of the work of scholars like Loraux, Vernant and Zeitlin, but unlike many studies that share this pedigree, it is lucidly written and free of irritating jargon. Indeed, it can be safely recommended to those classicists who are somehow uneasily aware that naive positivism has died, but who are too embarassed to ask what has taken its place." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its didactic function by examining Athenian ideology, and is consequently able to offer a coherent view of a number of long-standing problems in Euripidean criticism, for instance, the relation of Euripides to the Sophists.
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Euripidean Polemic by N.T. Croally,
By Dr. David Holden (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Euripidean Polemic: The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy (Cambridge Classical Studies) (Hardcover)
Euripidean Polemic by Dr. N.T. Croally is an excellent textbook for any student or academic wishing to understand the function of Athenian tragedy and its role within the political system. Dr. Croally's insights into the work of Euripides (concentrating on the Trojan Women) are unique and fascinating. This is truly a useful and scholarly book. Highly recommended.
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The Political Space,
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This review is from: Euripidean Polemic: The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy (Cambridge Classical Studies) (Hardcover)
For anyone interested in Ancient Greek theatre and the focus on space, this text is an excellent analysis of The Trojan Women as the context for investigating the politics of space as it relates to both the Ancient Greek stage and Greek ideology. And while the text is at times dense and "heavily academic," I found the analysis of space extremely insightful and enlightening and used the ideas freely in my work on a production of The Trojan Women. Highly recommended.
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This is a wonderful book. Croally is an erudite and adventurous scholar, and an interesting writer, not all that common for academics these days (e.g. "the slaves betray characteristics of the free which the free themselves do not possess"). This is essential reading for the study of Euripides and the function of tragedy.
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Was tragedy supposed to teach? Many scholars have assumed that it did have some educative function and effect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Peloponnesian War, Lain Entralgo, Funeral Oration, Persian Wars, Great Dionysia, Judgement of Paris, Hercules Furens, House of Atreus, Dissoi Logoi, New Comedy, Homer's Troy, Troy of Troades, Homeric Troy, Oedipus Tyrannus, Theatre of Dionysus New!
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Was tragedy supposed to teach? Many scholars have assumed that it did have some educative function and effect. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
civic discourse, didactic function, dramatic world Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peloponnesian War, Lain Entralgo, Funeral Oration, Persian Wars, Great Dionysia, Judgement of Paris, Hercules Furens, House of Atreus, Dissoi Logoi, New Comedy, Homer's Troy, Troy of Troades, Homeric Troy, Oedipus Tyrannus, Theatre of Dionysus New!
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- The Trojan Women (Plays for Performance Series) by Nicholas Rudall on 9 pages
- Suppliant Women (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Euripides in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Ancient Greece: An Illustrated History (Illustrated National Histories) by Peter Green in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Euripides and the Full Circle of Myth (Loeb Classical Monographs) by Cedric H. Whitman in Back Matter
- Against the Grain: Essays Nineteen Seventy-Five to Nineteen Eighty-Five by Terry Eagleton in Back Matter
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- Anthology of Ancient and Medieval Woman's Song by Anne L. Klinck on page 17, and Back Matter
- Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles by Mark Ringer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy (Cambridge Classical Studies) by Thalia Papadopoulou in Back Matter
- Thucydides and the Shaping of History (Classical Literature and Society) by Emily Greenwood in Back Matter
- Literary Texts and the Greek Historian (Approaching the Ancient World) by Christopher Pelling in Back Matter
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