The past in Aeschylus and Sophocles (Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 11)

The book studies the past of the characters in Aeschylus and Sophocles, a neglected but crucial topic. The characters ́ beliefs, values, and emotions bear on their view of the past. This view reinforces their beliefs and their conception of themselves and others as agents of free will and members of a family and/or community. The study reveals that, although the characters ́ idea of the past is fixed, the impact of the past is not. The characters consider, review, and construct narratives of it, as they seek to mould a future they perceive as morally just for themselves and others.

Trends in Classics, a series and journal edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, publishes innovative, interdisciplinary work which brings to the study of Greek and Latin texts the insights and methods of related disciplines such as narratology, intertextuality, reader-response criticism, and oral poetics. Both publications seek to publish research across the full range of classical antiquity.

The series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes welcomes monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings and collections of papers; it provides an important forum for the ongoing debate about where Classics fits in modern cultural and historical studies.

The journal Trends in Classics is published twice a year with approx. 160 pp. per issue. Each year one issue is devoted to a specific subject with articles edited by a guest editor.

Acknowledgments......Page 8 Contents......Page 10 Introduction......Page 11 A. Aeschylus......Page 25 I. Persae......Page 27 II. Septem......Page 47 III. Supplices......Page 75 IV. Agamemnon......Page 99 V. Choephori and Eumenides......Page 153 B. Sophocles......Page 195 I. Ajax......Page 197 II. Philoctetes......Page 251 III. Electra......Page 325 IV. Trachiniae......Page 381 V. Oedipus Tyrannus......Page 443 VI. Oedipus Coloneus......Page 481 Conclusions......Page 517 Appendices......Page 527 Bibliography......Page 553 Index of passages......Page 569 Index of names and subjects......Page 601 Review text: "She [Poulheria Kyriakou] has produced a responsible and accurate reference work that will repay consultation by scholars working on Aeschylus or Sophocles, while developing a topic that can be fruitfully studied in any tragedy."Justina Gregory in: BMCR 2012.05.46