TY - JOUR
T1 - TRADITION and INNOVATION in Greek TRAGEDY'S MYTHOLOGICAL EXEMPLA
AU - Konstantinou, Ariadne
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Classical Association.
PY - 2015/12/1
Y1 - 2015/12/1
N2 - Novelties introduced into traditional myths are an essential characteristic of Greek tragedy. Each and every play demonstrates, in different ways, how tragedians were versatile and innovative in handling mythic material. Modern prefaces to individual tragedies often discuss the possible innovations in the dramatization of a myth compared to previous or subsequent versions. Innovations advanced in a play sometimes became so familiar that they came to be regarded as 'standard'. Such examples include the condemnation and death of the protagonist in Sophocles' Antigone and, in all likelihood, Medea's filicide in Euripides' Medea.
AB - Novelties introduced into traditional myths are an essential characteristic of Greek tragedy. Each and every play demonstrates, in different ways, how tragedians were versatile and innovative in handling mythic material. Modern prefaces to individual tragedies often discuss the possible innovations in the dramatization of a myth compared to previous or subsequent versions. Innovations advanced in a play sometimes became so familiar that they came to be regarded as 'standard'. Such examples include the condemnation and death of the protagonist in Sophocles' Antigone and, in all likelihood, Medea's filicide in Euripides' Medea.
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U2 - 10.1017/s0009838815000270
DO - 10.1017/s0009838815000270
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AN - SCOPUS:84940054592
SN - 0009-8388
VL - 65
SP - 476
EP - 488
JO - Classical Quarterly
JF - Classical Quarterly
IS - 2
ER -