The use of anonymous characters in Greek tragedy
Subtitle: the shaping of heroes
By: by Florence Yoon
Series: Mnemosyne supplements ; volume 344; Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava -- v. 344.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9789004229037; 9789004230330
Subjects: Greek Mythology; Characters and characteristics in literature; Greek drama (Tragedy); Characters; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Classes: Personal servants; title: Nurses and tutors; title: Other servants; title: Heralds; title: Priests; title: Children; title: Individuals: Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they say; title: Prologizomenoi; title: Eteocles and his scout (Septem); title: Agamemnon and the herald (Agamemnon); title: Admetus and the servants (Alcestis); title: Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by their dialogue; title: Creon and the watchman (Antigone); title: Deianeira and the messenger (Trachiniae); title: Orestes and the tutor (S. Electra); title: Iolaus, Alcmene and the servant of Hyllus (Heracleidae); title: Hippolytus and the old man (Hippolytus); title: Andromache and her "syndoulos" (Andromache); title: Electra, Orestes, and the old tutor (E. Electra); title: Menelaus and the doorkeeper (Helen); title: Orestes and the Phrygian slave (Orestes); title: Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they do; title: Phaedra and her nurse (Hippolytus); title: Creousa and the old tutor (Ion); title: Agamemnon and the old servant (Ia); title: Characters who affect the portrayal of their hero by what they are; title: Electra and the autourgos (E. Electra); title: Heracles and his daughter (Heracleidae); title: Eurystheus and his herald (Heracleidae); title: The Egyptians and their herald (A. Supplices and Aegyptioi); title: Special cases: The Persian queen: the anonymity of a historical figure; title: Cilissa: anonymously named; title: The slave of Loxias in Ion: naming an anonymous character; title: Contrasts and comparisons: Epic: Homer and Hesiod; title: Aristophanic comedy: the "kedestes" in Thesmophoriazusae; title: A brief note on later tragedy.