TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Inventing the barbarian : Greek self-definition through tragedy
T2  - Oxford classical monographs
A1  - Hall, Edith
LA  - eng
PP  - Oxford
PB  - Clarendon
YR  - 1989
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/vaari.1020982
AB  - Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism are some of the images used by Athenian tragedians to define the non-Greek, "barbarian" world. This book explains for the first time the reasons behind their singular fascination with barbarians. Edith Hall sets the Greek plays against the historical background of the Panhellenic wars, and the establishment of an Athenian empire based on democracy and slavery. Analyzed within the context of contemporary anthropology and political philosophy, Hall reveals how the poets conceptualized the barbarian as the negative embodiment of Athenian civic ideals. She compares the treatment of foreigners in Homer and in tragedy, showing that the new dimension which the idea of the barbarian had brought to the tragic theater radically affected the poets' interpretation of myth and their evocation of the distant past, as well as enriching their reportoire of aural and visual effects. Hall argues that the invented barbarian of the tragic stage was a powerful cultural expression of Greek xenophobia and chauvinism that, paradoxically, produced and outburst of creative energy and literary innovation.
NO  - Lisäpainokset: Paperback 1991.
NO  - Includes index.
NO  - Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Cambridge University, 1988.
SN  - 0-19-814895-X kovakantinen
SN  - 0-19-814780-5 pehmeäkantinen
KW  - Primitivism in literature.
KW  - National characteristics in literature.
KW  - Greek drama (Tragedy) : History and criticism.
KW  - Ethnocentrism in literature.
KW  - Ethnic groups in literature.
KW  - Aliens in literature.
KW  - tragediat
KW  - antiikki
KW  - näytelmäkirjallisuus
KW  - kirjallisuudenhistoria
KW  - kreikankielinen kirjallisuus
KW  - etnosentrismi
KW  - kirjallisuus
KW  - aiheet
KW  - kulttuurihistoria
KW  - tragedier
KW  - antiken
KW  - dramatik
KW  - litteraturhistoria
KW  - litteratur på grekiska
KW  - etnocentrism
KW  - litteratur
KW  - ämnen (områden)
KW  - kulturhistoria
KW  - Kreikka
KW  - Grekland
KW  - kreikkalainen näytelmäkirjallisuus
ER  -