10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATREIDS»
Discover the use of
Atreids in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Atreids and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Past in Aeschylus and Sophocles
His implacable hatred of the Atreids and especially Odysseus is a much more
complex issue. In Philoctetes the commanding position of the Atreids seems to be
more firmly established than in the Homeric epics or Sophocles' own Ajax, ...
2
The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin ...
ATREIDS IN FRAGMENTS (AND ELSEWHERE) Christopher Collard interpres tu
CeCROPii, Martine, cothurni audis eximius (nomen sic conuenit arti); ut scite
natas Agamemnonis exposuisti, sic docte redigis disiecti membra poetae. annis
iam ...
J. Robert C. Cousland, James James Rutherford Hume, 2009
3
Homeric Contexts: Neoanalysis and the Interpretation of Oral ...
Finally there are the Atreids, Agamemnon and Menelaus. Each of these heroes
has his own story.21 We see that the leaders of the Achaeans are a
conglomerate coming from quite different mythological traditions. Some of them
have no ...
Franco Montanari, Antonios Rengakos, Christos C. Tsagalis, 2012
4
Brill's Companion to Sophocles
Philoctetes claims that Neoptolemus' return to Troy and his alliance with the
hated Atreids and Odysseus is disgraceful because the trio had insulted Achilles'
son by cheating him of his father's arms (1362–1372). A noble man never forgets
an ...
Andreas Markantonatos, 2012
5
Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles
The Atreids defend the narrow, formal discipline of the army. Teucer defends the
rights of the genos or family, charged with the burial of its members and still
possessed by a clannish exclusiveness that bars Odysseus from those rites of
burial ...
6
In Search of the Trojan War
Ancient tradition said that Mycenae was founded by the Perseid dynasty and that
the Atreids (Pelops, Atreus, Agamemnon) were outsiders. The same kind of story
is told of the Cadmeans of Thebes. The origins of the Atreids are said to have ...
7
Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry
Od. 1-5 The seers of the palace of the Atreids begin their prophecy with lament
for the Palace and the Atreids and continue with Menelaus' sorrows: δμα δμα κα
πρμοι, λχος κα στίβοι φιλνορες· Aesch. Ag. 410-1 Like the Argive prophets,
Nereus ...
May he who hates the Atreids be as dear to the gods as he is to me. CHORUS O
mountainous, all-nourishing Mother Earth, Mother of Zeus, our lord, himself, you
who range the golden Paktolos, Mother of pain and sorrow, I begged you, ...
9
A Commentary on Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris
Under the command of Agamemnon, who in IT does not share the office of
commander-in-chief with Menelaus, the domestic problems of the Atreids led to
confrontation with an important adversary and eventually to glory for all Hellas.
10
Fighting Words and Feuding Words: Anger and the Homeric Poems
... one Whose father is powerful (obrimopdtre's), and she made strife between the
Atreids. This ménis is aimed at Oilean Ajax for raping Cassandra in Athena's
sacred domain, so her wrath ends up providing a source of strife among the
Atreids.
