Search Results - "Aeschylus"

The role of Athena in fifth century Athenian drama by Sibley, Eleanor

“…Using Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the extant complete plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, this thesis reconciles each of these contradictions both within themselves and with each other. …”
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Opsis: the visuality of Greek drama by Meineck, Peter

“…This study concludes with a case study based on Aeschylus Oresteia and the raising of Phidias’ colossal bronze statue of Athena on the Acropolis and the impact that this may have had on the original reception of the trilogy.…”
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Valorising literature in the age of technology: some personal reflections by Quayum, Mohammad Abdul

“…Or is literature still as important as it was, say, during the time of Homer, Aeschylus and Sophocles? This paper will investigate these issues and argue that literature is likely to outlive our current obsessions with technology, because of the many positive influences it has on us as human beings. …”
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Byron's "Manfred" and the Greek imaginary by Leman, Lucia

“…Following insights from the previous chapters, Chapter Four provides a close reading of Manfred, assessing the play as a form of simultaneous dialogue between Aeschylus, Plato, and Byron’s own hero. While the hero’s musings and monologues are seen as a reiteration of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, and while his notion of a (deflected) eros seems inherited from the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Oriental Tales, the plot of the play seems to follow the course of an initiation rite (theoria) evoked in Plato’s (and Taylor’s) notion of the Eleusinian and Bacchic mysteries. …”
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