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City of suppliants : tragedy and the Athenian empire
With close readings of suppliant dramas by each of the major playwrights, this book explores how Greek tragedy used tales of foreign supplicants to promote, question, and negotiate the imperial ideology of Athens as a benevolent and moral ruling city.
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Oedipus at Colonus
This book aims to offer a contemporary literary interpretation of the play, including a readable discussion of its underlying historical, religious, moral, social, and mythical issues. Also, it discusses the most recent interpretative scholarship on the play, the main intertextual affiliations with earlier Thebes-related tragedies, especially focusing on Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus Tyrannus, and the literature and performance reception of the play; it contains an up-to-date bibliography and detailed indices.
The book won the Academy of Athens Great Award for the Best Monograph in Classical Philology for 2008.
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Scholia vetera in Sophoclis \Oedipum Coloneum\
The ancient scholia to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus shed light on Alexandrian ways of engaging with this play, and are richer than those to the other Sophoclean plays.The last editor, Vittorio de Marco (1952), established a better text of these scholia than his predecessors, in as much as he had a fuller knowledge of their manuscript tradition.
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Viajar con Freud. Orvieto y la invención del psicoanálisis
\"Para mí, este libro tiene, en efecto, una segunda importancia subjetiva que sólo alcancé a comprender cuando lo hube concluido, al comprobar que era parte de mi propio análisis, que representaba mi reacción frente a la muerte de mi padre, es decir, frente al más significativo suceso, a la más tajante pérdida en la vida de un hombre\". Sigmund Freud Del desarraigo inicial a la invención del psicoanálisis. De la muerte del padre a La interpretación de los sueños. De una incipiente teoría de la seducción al complejo de Edipo. En el medio, un viaje a Italia donde Freud se topa con los frescos de Signorelli en la Catedral de Orvieto y después… después una carta a Fliess donde le dice que ya no cree en su neurótica y, posteriormente, el comienzo del Selbstanalyse. Freud llegó a Orvieto el 8 de septiembre de 1897 y visitó la Catedral a la mañana siguiente. Nada anticipaba que los frescos pudieran haberle impactado tanto, salvo por su silencio, tal vez. Tuvo que pasar un año y otro viaje para que, luego de un olvido, apareciera el nombre de Signorelli. ¿Qué vio Freud en esos frescos como para dejar de creer en su neurótica e inventar el psicoanálisis, articulado al complejo de Edipo? ¿Qué vio en Orvieto para que a su regreso iniciara el Selbstanalyse, que más adelante interrumpiría porque no hay análisis sin otro? Este es un libro de viajes, sobre todo el de una travesía: la que llevó a Freud a inventar el psicoanálisis.
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Linguistic Indeterminacy and the Crisis of Authority in Oedipus Rex
Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex has been a rich source for scholars, yielding various interpretations spanning centuries. This study examines the play as a case study of how interpretation and power intertwine. By placing the play within the modern crisis of interpretation, particularly interpretation as an instrument of power, this study enters into a dialogue with postmodernist critical thinkers, such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. It positions the play as a tragedy of epistemic pride, in which Oedipus asserts his interpretative framework as superior to legitimize his authority. Oedipus rules not only politically but also semiotically. As ruler of Thebes, his authority transcends the usual forms to include interpretative authority. His downfall is caused by epistemic hubris—pride in his own intellectual power of interpretation. He fails to understand that the oracle does not conform to the normal communicative functions of language. The correspondence between signifiers and signifieds is undermined by the oracle’s multiple interpretations and uncertainty of meaning. Oedipus’s world is governed by linguistic indeterminacy and referential disintegration, and as such, the referentiality of language to the world is no longer reliable. Oedipus’s authority does produce the knowledge that ultimately solves the riddle of Laius’s murder. However, his tragedy lies in the realization that this knowledge counters his understanding of language, and thus, of the world around him. The knowledge produced through Oedipus’s power proves tragic. He ends up a second Teiresias, blind but not as wise.
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