Amit Shilo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5666241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amit Shilo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amit |
| FAMILY NAME | Shilo |
| SIGNATURE | SHILO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics
The Oresteia is permeated with depictions of the afterlife, which have never been examined together. In this book Amit Shilo analyses their intertwined and conflicting implications. He argues for a 'poetics of multiplicity' and 'poetics of the beyond' that inform the ongoing debates over justice, fate, ethics, and politics in the trilogy. The book presents novel, textually-grounded readings of Cassandra's fate, Clytemnestra's ghost scene, mournin…
The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus by Sarah Nooter
Reviewed by: The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus by Sarah Nooter Amit Shilo Sarah Nooter. The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. x, 309. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-14551-1. An active reader of ancient drama may well have dreamed of the voices of the actors and wondered what would cries of woe, densely alliterative passages, and Aeschylus's infamous compound bombast have evoked in Gr…
The Ghost of Clytemnestra in the Eumenides: Ethical Claims Beyond Human Limits
The Ghost of Clytemnestra is the first afterlife figure in extant Greek literature to call for vengeance instead of ritual burial. She goads the Erinyes to kill Orestes in order to rectify the wrongs she has suffered. Yet the living Clytemnestra has already proven manipulative, politically usurping, and murderous; her Ghost attacks her own son. Further, the Ghost's lack of substance (as eido\ lon, psyche\ , or onar) distances her from the living …
The Ghost of Clytemnestra in the Eumenides: Ethical Claims Beyond Human Limits
The Ghost of Clytemnestra is the first afterlife figure in extant Greek literature to call for vengeance instead of ritual burial. She goads the Erinyes to kill Orestes in order to rectify the wrongs she has suffered. Yet the living Clytemnestra has already proven manipulative, politically usurping, and murderous; her Ghost attacks her own son. Further, the Ghost's lack of substance (as eido\ lon, psyche\ , or onar) distances her from the living …
The Ghost of Clytemnestra in the Eumenides: Ethical Claims Beyond Human Limits
The Ghost of Clytemnestra is the first afterlife figure in extant Greek literature to call for vengeance instead of ritual burial. She goads the Erinyes to kill Orestes in order to rectify the wrongs she has suffered. Yet the living Clytemnestra has already proven manipulative, politically usurping, and murderous; her Ghost attacks her own son. Further, the Ghost's lack of substance (as eido\ lon, psyche\ , or onar) distances her from the living …
The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus by Sarah Nooter
Reviewed by: The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus by Sarah Nooter Amit Shilo Sarah Nooter. The Mortal Voice in the Tragedies of Aeschylus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. x, 309. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-14551-1. An active reader of ancient drama may well have dreamed of the voices of the actors and wondered what would cries of woe, densely alliterative passages, and Aeschylus's infamous compound bombast have evoked in Gr…
Beyond Death in the Oresteia: Poetics, Ethics, and Politics
The Oresteia is permeated with depictions of the afterlife, which have never been examined together. In this book Amit Shilo analyses their intertwined and conflicting implications. He argues for a 'poetics of multiplicity' and 'poetics of the beyond' that inform the ongoing debates over justice, fate, ethics, and politics in the trilogy. The book presents novel, textually-grounded readings of Cassandra's fate, Clytemnestra's ghost scene, mournin…
Classical Antiquity Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Afterlife (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ancient Greek (1 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (1 works)