Greek tragedy and political theory
By: edited by J. Peter Euben.
Contributors: Euben, J. Peter.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.; Political plays, Greek -- History and criticism.; Politics and literature -- Greece.; Mythology, Greek, in literature.; Political science -- Greece.; Greece -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Greek tragedy and society / Charles Segal; title: Polis and monarch in early Attic tragedy / Anthony J. Podlecki; title: Thebes : theater of self and society in Athenian drama / Froma Zeitlin; title: Politics and madness / Michael Davis; title: The politics of Antigone / Warren J. Lane and Ann M. Lane; title: Human action and political action in Oedipus tyrannos / Joel D. Schwartz; title: Oedipus at Colonus / Laura Slatkin; title: Political corruption in Euripides' Orestes / J. Peter Euben; title: Myths and the origins of cities : reflections on the autochthony theme in Euripides' Ion / Arlene W. Saxonhouse; title: Tragedy and the education of the Dēmos : Aristotle's response to Plato / Stephen G. Salkever.