Achilles from Homer to Aeschylus: transposition of an homeric hero on the tragic stage Even if Sophocles, in Antiquity, was known as the most Homeric of the Tragics, Aeschylus was not outdone "who said that his tragedies were slices of Homers great feasts". Indeed, he wrote a whole trilogy -the Myrmidons, the Nereids, and the Phrygians or Hector's Ransom- about the greatest hero of the Trojan war -Achilles- taking on the very plot of the Iliad. This article inquires into the similarities and the differences between the trilogy and the Homeric intertext, by scanning the character of Achilles, especially considering his relationship with the army. It also analyses how and why the epic hero can be adapted to the tragic stage. The first part d...
Eighteenth-century sentimentalism may seem foreign to the brutal world of Homer’s Iliad. Yet the par...
Ce travail se propose d'examiner la vision tragique des Grecs, en partant de son origine, Homère, po...
Tragic hero, the waving sea, and insularity The article analyzes the character of the tragic hero as...
Achilles from Homer to Aeschylus: transposition of an homeric hero on the tragic stage Even if Soph...
<p>This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad,...
The shield of Achilles is elaborated in the Iliad in two different ways : if we consider the lenght ...
The construction of the shield of Achilles is one of the most fascinating sec-tions of the Iliad. He...
This paper addresses the causes and effects of grief within Homer\u27s Iliad. In addition, this pape...
Homeric epos had signified the hellenic foundation of the heroic condition in the poetry of the Gree...
In a close-reading of Iliad xxiv from a metanarrative perspective this paper shows how Achilles as t...
In this article for sixth-formers and school teachers, I explore the story of Achilles' heel and Hom...
This study, in re-examining the various acritical themes which previous review has found in the Achi...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...
Book 9 of the Iliad, universally considered one of the most marvelous in the poem, has also been a b...
In this dissertation, I discuss the revolutionary ways in which the three great Attic tragedians Aes...
Eighteenth-century sentimentalism may seem foreign to the brutal world of Homer’s Iliad. Yet the par...
Ce travail se propose d'examiner la vision tragique des Grecs, en partant de son origine, Homère, po...
Tragic hero, the waving sea, and insularity The article analyzes the character of the tragic hero as...
Achilles from Homer to Aeschylus: transposition of an homeric hero on the tragic stage Even if Soph...
<p>This article explores through a psychoanalytical lens the character of Achilles in Homer's Iliad,...
The shield of Achilles is elaborated in the Iliad in two different ways : if we consider the lenght ...
The construction of the shield of Achilles is one of the most fascinating sec-tions of the Iliad. He...
This paper addresses the causes and effects of grief within Homer\u27s Iliad. In addition, this pape...
Homeric epos had signified the hellenic foundation of the heroic condition in the poetry of the Gree...
In a close-reading of Iliad xxiv from a metanarrative perspective this paper shows how Achilles as t...
In this article for sixth-formers and school teachers, I explore the story of Achilles' heel and Hom...
This study, in re-examining the various acritical themes which previous review has found in the Achi...
The words of defeat are divided between Trojans and Achaeans depending on the hazards of war. That i...
Book 9 of the Iliad, universally considered one of the most marvelous in the poem, has also been a b...
In this dissertation, I discuss the revolutionary ways in which the three great Attic tragedians Aes...
Eighteenth-century sentimentalism may seem foreign to the brutal world of Homer’s Iliad. Yet the par...
Ce travail se propose d'examiner la vision tragique des Grecs, en partant de son origine, Homère, po...
Tragic hero, the waving sea, and insularity The article analyzes the character of the tragic hero as...