Journal article
Aias in Athens: the worlds of the play and the audience
- Abstract:
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Athenian tragic poets were careful to separate the ‘heroic’ world from the world of their ffth-century audience, and they did so by deploying the twin dynamic of ‘distance and diference’. This dynamic encoded cultural lessons and allowed the audience to sympathise with the dilemmas facing the characters on stage, and thus to evaluate and understand the way they went about dealing with those dilemmas. The Aias of Sophocles is used to make the point, demonstrating that the playwright attempted ...
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- Publication status:
- Accepted
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Fabrizio Serra editore Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica: atti di convegni Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2016-01-01
- ISSN:
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1724-1901
- Source identifiers:
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568863
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- pubs:568863
- Deposit date:
- 2016-02-10
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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