The Politics of Youth in Greek Tragedy

The Politics of Youth in Greek Tragedy
Author: Matthew Shipton
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Release: 2018
Genre: Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN: 9781474295109
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Youth in tragedy's literary forebears and contemporaries -- Intergenerational conflict in the Aeschylean Prometheus -- The politics of age and integration in Sophocles' Antigone -- The cult of the young warrior in Euripides' Heraclidae -- Youth and limitations on personal authority in Sophocles' Philoctetes -- Friendship and generational loyalty in Euripides' Orestes -- Euripides' Bacchae and Iphigenia in Aulis: a gap in the generations and political failure