Murder among friends : violation of philia in Greek tragedy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Belfiore, Elizabeth S. 1944- (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Θέματα: Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία) > Ιστορία και κριτική; Μυθολογία, Ελληνική στη λογοτεχνία; Φιλία στη λογοτεχνία; Δολοφονία στη λογοτεχνία; Οικογένεια στη λογοτεχνία; Έρωτας στη λογοτεχνία

  "Modern scholars have followed Aristotle in noting the importance of philia (kinship or friendship) in Greek tragedy, especially the large number of plots in which kin harm or murder one another. More than half of the thirty-two extant tragedies focus on an act in which harm occurs or is about to occur among philoi who are blood kin. It appears, then, that kin killing does not merely occur in what Aristotle calls the "best" Greek tragedies; rather, it is a characteristic of the genre as a whole." "In Murder Among Friends, Elizabeth Belfiore supports this thesis with an in-depth examination of the crucial role of philia in Greek tragedy. Drawing on a wealth of evidence, she compares tragedy and epic, discusses the role of philia relationships within Greek literature and society, and analyzes in detail the pattern of violation of philia in five plays: Aeschylus' Suppliants, Sophocles' Philoctetes and Ajax, and Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris and Andromache."-- από το κάλυμμα του βιβλίου. 

 1. Philia Relationships and Greek Literature -- 2. Averting Fratricide: Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris -- 3. The Suppliant Bride: Io and the Danaids in Aiskhylos's Suppliants -- 4. A Token of Pain: Betrayal of Xenia in Sophokles' Philoktetes -- 5. Sleeping With the Enemy: Euripides' Andromakhe -- 6. Killing One's Closest Philos: Self-Slaughter in Sophokles' Aias -- App. A. Violation of Philia in the Extant Tragedies -- App. B. Violation of Philia in the Fragments of the Major Tragedians -- App. C. Violation of Philia in the Fragments of the Minor Tragedians.