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Aesthetic Response And Traditional Social Valuation In Euripides' A
Aesthetic Response and Traditional Social Valuation in Euripides' a
Subtitle:
Tragic a
Book Category:
History > General
Author:
Baechle, Nicho
Editor::
Baechle, Nicho
ISBN 13:
9783110613100
Price:
EUR 79.95
Publication Year:
2020

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De Gruyter.

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Euripides' Electra thematizes and analyzes the appeal of tragic Kunstsprache: it reflected traditional, aristocratically-inflected assumptions about the continuity of appearance and substance, even in a radical democracy. An analogy between social and aesthetic valuation is played out and problematized: social appearances made clear the virtues and agency of the well-born just as aesthetic "appearances" indicated heroic character and agency.