Under the Sign of the Shield

Semiotics and Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes

Froma I. Zeitlin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

198 Seiten

2009
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-2589-2 (ISBN)

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Described as "a powerful, brilliant, and original study" when first published, this second edition of Froma Zeitlin's experiment in decoding the Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes in the light of contemporary theory now updates her explorations of the tragic struggle between Eteocles and Polyneices, the doomed sons of Oedipus, with a new preface, a new afterword, and the addition of the relevant Greek texts. The mutual self-destruction of the enemy brothers in this last act of the cursed family is preceded (and determined) by one of Aeschylus' most daring innovations through the pairing of the shields of attackers and defenders in the central scene of the play as an extended dialogue explicitly concerned with visual and verbal symbols. In a preliminary consideration of the relations between language and kinship and between city and family, between self and society, as determining forces in fifth-century drama, the heart of the book is a detailed investigation of this tour de force of semiotic energy. Zeitlin's decipherment of this provocative text yields a heightened appreciation of Aeschylus' compositional artistry and the complexity of his worldview. At the same time, this study points the way to Zeitlin's larger engagement with the special ideological role that the city of Thebes comes to play on the tragic stage as the negative counterpart to the self-representation of Athens.

Froma I. Zeitlin is professor of classics and the Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Princeton University.

Chapter 0 Foreword by Greg Nagy Chapter 2 Preface to the First Edition Chapter 3 Preface to the Second Edition Part 4 I Language, Structure, and the Son of Oedipus Chapter 5 1 Trilogy: Narrative, Time, and Repetitive Form Chapter 6 2 Genos: System of Finality/System of Language Chapter 7 3 Mythos-Polis/Genos: Autochthony/Incest Chapter 8 4 Hero: Structure, Sign, and Identity Chapter 9 5 Reading the Signs by the Rules of the Game Part 10 II The Shield Scene Chapter 11 6 Tydeus-Melanippos: 375-416 Chapter 12 7 Kapaneus-Polyphontes: 422-451 Chapter 13 8 Eteoklos-Megareus: 457-480 Chapter 14 9 Hippomedon-Hyperbios: 486-520 Chapter 15 10 Parthenopaios-Aktor: 526-562 Chapter 16 11 Amphiaraos-Lasthenes: 568-626 Chapter 17 12 Polyneikes-Eteokles: 631-685 Chapter 18 13 Aftermath Chapter 19 Appendix to Part II: The Opfertod Theory Part 20 III System and Representation Chapter 21 14 The Shield Scene as System: Relations and Patterns Chapter 22 15 The Shield Scene as Representation: the Mise en Scene Chapter 23 16 The Shield Scene as System: the Development of the Self Chapter 24 Postscript: Tragic Thebes on the Athenian Stage

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.4.2009
Reihe/Serie	Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7391-2589-3 / 0739125893
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-2589-2 / 9780739125892
Zustand	Neuware