Euripides' Alcestis : narrative, myth, and religion / Andreas Markantonatos.

• Narrative, myth, and religion: Introduction -- Tragic storytelling: form and content -- Tragic worlds: narrating the Athenian polis -- Euripides' Alcestis: narrative and interpretation -- Narrative: Introduction -- Death is death is death: narrating a world of perennial suffering -- Myth: Introduction -- Mythological intertextuality: Alcestis and Heracles -- Prophecy, theory, action: the making of a hero -- Religion: Introduction -- Death is death is life: Eleusinian Orphism and moral courage -- Death is death is life: Alcestis, Athens, and mystical salvation.

Ämnesord

Alkestis 

Greece  -- Religion. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Euripides, ca 480-406 f.Kr.

Klassifikation

PA3978 (LCC)

882.01 (DDC)