The Alexandra of Lycophron
A Literary Study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9298355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Mcnelis, Alexander Sens |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 240 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Alexandra of Lycophron (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199601899.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4237674177 |
| Open Library | OL28590146M |
| ISBN | 9780199601899 |
| GOOGLE_BOOK_ID | Y399DAAAQBAJ |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
The obscurity of Lycophron's Alexandra was already notorious in antiquity and has long hampered a holistic approach to the poem. Through a series of distinct but closely integrated literary studies of major aspects of the work, including its style, its engagement with the traditions of epic and tragedy, and its treatment of heroism and of the gods, the book explores the way the Alexandra reconfigures Greek mythology, particularly as presented in Homeric epic and Athenian tragedy, in order to cast the Romans and their restoration of Trojan glory as the ultimate telos of history. In this sense, the poem emerges as an important intermediary between Homeric epic and Latin poetry, particularly Vergil's Aeneid. By rewriting specific features of the epic and tragic traditions, the Alexandra denies to Greek heroes the glory that was the traditional compensation for their suffering, while at the same time attributing to Cassandra's Trojan family honors framed in the traditional language of Greek heroism. In this sense, the figure of Cassandra, a prophetess traditionally gifted with the power of foresight but denied credibility, self-reflexively serves as a vehicle for exploring the potentials and limitations of poetry
Art · Art history · EPIC · Glory · Greek tragedy · Literature · Mythology · Order (exchange · Poetry · Style (visual arts · Tragedy (event · Trojan · Visual arts · Classical Antiquity Studies · History · Alexandra (Lycophron) · Criticism and interpretation · Greek Epic poetry · Greek poetry · Greek poetry, history and criticism · History and criticism
Lycophron
Music and Dance in Tragedy After the Fifth Century
Hellenistic Tragedy and Satyr-Drama; Lycophron’s Alexandra
Beyond Athens
The Exagōgē of Ezekiel the Tragedian
Theatre Performance After the Fifth Century
The Rhesus
Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art
Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century
Intertextuality
The Fifth Century and After
Scholars and Scholarship on Tragedy
Society and Politics in Post-Fifth-Century Tragedy
Attitudes Towards Tragedy from the Second Sophistic to Late Antiquity
Greek Tragedy in the Fourth Century
Le nekuomanteion du lac Averne I. L’origine de la tradition
A furious prophecy
Αἰανής
Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man Discussing Narratives of Domestic Abuse and Gaslighting through the Cassandra Myth
Cassandra and the Poetics of Prophecy in Greek and Latin Literature
Oppian's Halieutica
Des souris et des hommes
Lycophron, ἄρδις, and the Death of Paris
Triphiodorus’ Sack of Troy and the Poetics of Cassandra
Sositheus and His ‘New’ Satyr Play
| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,78 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |