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  1. The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles
    reasoning madness
    Author: Riley, Kathleen
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    A study of the reception of Euripides' tragedy 'The Madness of Herakles' from late antiquity to the present day. Kathleen Riley examines changing ideas of Heraklean madness and, consequently of the Heraklean hero. more

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    A study of the reception of Euripides' tragedy 'The Madness of Herakles' from late antiquity to the present day. Kathleen Riley examines changing ideas of Heraklean madness and, consequently of the Heraklean hero.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780199534487; 9780191715945 (Sekundärausgabe)
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    RVK Categories: FH 24045
    Series: Oxford classical monographs
    Subjects: Wahnsinn <Motiv>; Rezeption
    Scope: viii, 398 p., Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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  2. The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles
    reasoning madness
    Author: Riley, Kathleen
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780199534487
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    RVK Categories: FH 24045
    Series: Oxford classical monographs
    Subjects: Heracles (Greek mythology) in literature; Heracles (Greek mythology) v Drama; Mental illness in literature; Heracles (Greek mythology) in literature; Heracles (Greek mythology); Mental illness in literature; Wahnsinn <Motiv>; Rezeption
    Other subjects: Euripides: Heracles; Euripides (ca. 485/480 v. Chr.-406 v.Chr.): Hercules
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 398 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

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  3. The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles
    reasoning madness
    Author: Riley, Kathleen
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley explores its reception and performance history from the... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley explores its reception and performance history from the fifth century BC to AD 2006. Her focus is upon changing ideas of Heraklean madness, its causes, its consequences, and its therapy. Writers subsequent to Euripides have tried to 'reason' or make sense of the madness, often inaccordance with contemporary thinking on mental illness. She concurrently explores how these attempts have, in the process, nec

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780199534487
    RVK Categories: FH 24045
    Series: Oxford classical monographs
    Subjects: Heracles (Greek mythology); Mental illness in literature; Heracles (Greek mythology) in literature
    Other subjects: Euripides: Heracles
    Scope: VIII, 398 S.
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    "This book began life as an Oxford D.Phil. thesis"--Pref

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [368]-387) and index

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    Teilw. zugl.: Oxford, Univ., Diss

    Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction: reasoning madness and redefining the hero; 1. 'No longer himself': the tragic fall of Euripides' Herakles; 2. 'Let the monster be mine': Seneca and the internalization of imperial furor; 3. A peculiar compound: Hercules as Renaissance man; 4. 'Even the earth is not room enough': Herculean selfhood on the Elizabethan stage; 5. Sophist, sceptic, sentimentalist: the nineteenth-century damnatio of Euripides; 6. The Browning version: Aristophanes' Apology and 'the perfect piece'

    7. The psychological hero: Herakles' lost self and the creation of Nervenkunst8. Herakles' apotheosis: the tragedy of Superman; 9. The Herakles complex: a Senecan diagnosis of the 'Family Annihilator'; 10. Creating a Herakles for our times: a montage of modern madness; Appendix 1. Heraklean madness on the modern stage: a chronology; Appendix 2. The Reading school play; Bibliography; Index