The stray charioteer: Athletic connotations in the shaping of tragic Orestes

Autor: Manousakis, Nikos
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Popis: In 5th century tragedy Agamemnon’s son Orestes is conceived as an athlete in various forms: a frenzied charioteer as well as a horse racer, a wrestler, and a runner. In the present paper I discuss how Sophocles and Euripides used, expanded and re-modelled Aeschylus’ athletic conception of Orestes.
Databáze: OpenAIRE