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4. Notes on Tragic Rhetoric in Euripides’ Hecuba

  • J. Bollack
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Allusion, Authority, and Truth
This chapter is in the book Allusion, Authority, and Truth

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents VII
  3. Introduction 1
  4. EPIC AND LYRIC
  5. 1. The Authority of Orpheus, Poet and Bard: Between Tradition and Written Practice 13
  6. 2. Remembering the Gastēr 37
  7. 3. Achilles Polytropos and Odysseus as Suitor: Iliad 9.307-429 51
  8. 4. Hector’s Inaction (Iliad 5.471-492) 77
  9. 5. Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236) 87
  10. 6. Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16 115
  11. 7. Reading the Epic Past: The Iliad on Heroic Epic 129
  12. 8. The Meaning of homoios (όμοĩος) in Theogony 27 and Elsewhere 153
  13. 9. Hesiod, Th. 117 and 128: Formula and the Text’s Temporality 169
  14. 10. Pylades and Orestes in Pindar’s Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship 187
  15. DRAMA
  16. 1. Aeschylus, Suppliants 112-150 203
  17. 2. Sons of the Shield: Paternal Arms in Epic and Tragedy 219
  18. 3. Echoes from Mount Cithaeron 235
  19. 4. Notes on Tragic Rhetoric in Euripides’ Hecuba 249
  20. 5. The Lady Vanishes: Helen and Her Phantom in Euripidean Drama 263
  21. 6. “A Song to Match my Song”: Lyric Doubling in Euripides’ Helen 283
  22. 7. Tyrants and Flatterers: Kolakeia in Aristophanes’ Knights and Wasps 303
  23. 8. Do Not Sit near Socrates (Aristophanes’ Frogs, 1482-1499) 339
  24. 9. Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration 359
  25. PROSE
  26. 1. Shifting Paradigms: Mimesis in Isocrates 377
  27. 2. Polybius and Daniel: Two Universal Histories, or What Does It Mean To Be Contemporary? 401
  28. Backmatter 413
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110245400.2.249

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Table of Contents VII
  3. Introduction 1
  4. EPIC AND LYRIC
  5. 1. The Authority of Orpheus, Poet and Bard: Between Tradition and Written Practice 13
  6. 2. Remembering the Gastēr 37
  7. 3. Achilles Polytropos and Odysseus as Suitor: Iliad 9.307-429 51
  8. 4. Hector’s Inaction (Iliad 5.471-492) 77
  9. 5. Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236) 87
  10. 6. Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16 115
  11. 7. Reading the Epic Past: The Iliad on Heroic Epic 129
  12. 8. The Meaning of homoios (όμοĩος) in Theogony 27 and Elsewhere 153
  13. 9. Hesiod, Th. 117 and 128: Formula and the Text’s Temporality 169
  14. 10. Pylades and Orestes in Pindar’s Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship 187
  15. DRAMA
  16. 1. Aeschylus, Suppliants 112-150 203
  17. 2. Sons of the Shield: Paternal Arms in Epic and Tragedy 219
  18. 3. Echoes from Mount Cithaeron 235
  19. 4. Notes on Tragic Rhetoric in Euripides’ Hecuba 249
  20. 5. The Lady Vanishes: Helen and Her Phantom in Euripidean Drama 263
  21. 6. “A Song to Match my Song”: Lyric Doubling in Euripides’ Helen 283
  22. 7. Tyrants and Flatterers: Kolakeia in Aristophanes’ Knights and Wasps 303
  23. 8. Do Not Sit near Socrates (Aristophanes’ Frogs, 1482-1499) 339
  24. 9. Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration 359
  25. PROSE
  26. 1. Shifting Paradigms: Mimesis in Isocrates 377
  27. 2. Polybius and Daniel: Two Universal Histories, or What Does It Mean To Be Contemporary? 401
  28. Backmatter 413
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