Debating with the Eumenides : aspects of the reception of greek tragedy in modern Greece / edited by Vayos Liapis, Maria Pavlou and Antonis K. Petrides.

Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.

Can transmission and transformation be reconciled? / Lorna Hardwick -- George Seferis and Euripides' Bacchae / Michael Paschalis -- Myth, the mask and the "Masquerade" of femiminity : performing gender in Yannis Ritsos' "Ismene" / Demetra Demetriou -- The brightness of Philoctetes' Weapons in Yannis Ritsos "Philoctetes" -- Maria Pavlou -- Dialogising Aeschylus in the Poetry of Kyriakos Charalambides / Antonis K. Petrides -- Memories of Heroines in Memories of spectators : mythic, dramatic and theatrical time from the ancient drama to the modern greek theatre / Theodore Grammatas and Maria Dimaki-Zora -- How to Do (in) Kings with words : radically rewritting the myth of the Atreids in Athens, 1964 / Gonda Van Steen -- Very tragical mirth : myth and the tragic in Pavlos Matessis' Towards Eleusis / Ioannis Konstantakos -- Cassandra and the Centaur: Greek (tragic) myth in Marios Pontiksas' Play Neighing / Vayos Liapis.

Modern Greek national and cultural identities consist, to a considerable extent, of clusters of cultural memory, shaped by an ongoing dialogue with the classical past. Within this dialogue between modern Greece and classical antiquity, Greek tragedy takes pride of place. In this volume, ten scholars from Cyprus, Greece, the United Kingdom and the United States explore the various ways in which Greek tragedy and tragic myth have been reimagined and rewritten in modern Greek drama and poetry. The book’s extensive coverage includes major modern Greek authors, such as Cavafy, Seferis, and Ritsos, as well as less well-known, but equally rich and rewarding, 20th- and 21st-century texts.