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Discussion Series: Poétique d’Aristophane et langue d’Euripide en dialogue

« Rendre l’homme meilleur ! » Ou quand la comédie interroge la tragédie sur sa finalité : à propos des Grenouilles d’Aristophane [1] Critiquant l’interprétation, historiquement marquée, de Werner Jaeger qui insistait sur l’ambition éthique d’Aristophane militant, dans les Grenouilles, pour une poésie susceptible d’éduquer les citoyens, cette étude se concentre plus spécialement sur la devise, revendiquée par le personnage d’Euripide, d’une poésie capable de « rendre l’homme meilleur ». Mot… Read more

Curated Articles

Epic

[[This essay is a 2010 online version of an original printed version that appeared as Chapter 1 in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, ed. Richard Eldridge (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009) 19-44. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{19|20}” indicates where p. 19 of the printed version ends and p. 20 begins.]] What is… Read more

Curated Articles

Performance and Text in Ancient Greece

[[This essay is an expanded online version (2010) of an original printed version that appeared as Chapter 34 in The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, ed. G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi, P. Vasunia (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2009) 417-431. In this expanded version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{417|418}” indicates where p. 417 of the printed version ends and p. Read more

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Flavius Philostratus, On Heroes

Flavius Philostratus, On Heroes   Translated by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and Jennifer K. Berenson Maclean   Table of Contents. Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preliminaries to Philostratus’s On Heroes by Casey Dué and Gregory Nagy Introduction Philostratus, On Heroes Glossary Select Bibliography Notes In Memoriam Adrienne Mamelian Berenson and Janice Hunter Aitken “Strength and dignity are her… Read more