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  • Amit Shilo, University of California, Santa Barbara
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2022
Print publication year:
2022
Online ISBN:
9781108963862
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Creative Common License - CC Creative Common License - BY Creative Common License - NC
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Book description

The Oresteia is permeated with depictions of the afterlife, which have never been examined together. In this book Amit Shilo analyses their intertwined and conflicting implications. He argues for a 'poetics of multiplicity' and 'poetics of the beyond' that inform the ongoing debates over justice, fate, ethics, and politics in the trilogy. The book presents novel, textually-grounded readings of Cassandra's fate, Clytemnestra's ghost scene, mourning ritual, hero cult, and punishment by Hades. It offers a fresh perspective on the political thought of the trilogy by contrasting the ethical focus of the Erinyes and Hades with Athena's insistence on divine unity and warfare. Shedding new light on the trilogy as a whole, this book is crucial reading for students and scholars of classical literature and religion. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Reviews

‘Shilo’s prose style is poetic in a way that feels deliberate, but never contrived. This makes the book a real pleasure to read, and only rarely misfires or obscures comprehension. All in all, I have no hesitation in recommending this book to students and scholars of tragedy, as well as those researching perceptions of death in the ancient world.’

Alexandra Hardwick Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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Contents

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  • Beyond Death in the Oresteia
    pp i-ii
  • Beyond Death in the Oresteia - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Poetics, Ethics, and Politics
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-viii
  • Additional material
    pp ix-x
  • A Note on Abbreviations and Translations
    pp xi-xii
  • Preface
    pp xi-xii
  • A Note on Abbreviations and Translations
    pp xiii-xiv
  • Introduction
    pp 1-28
  • Chapter 1 - The Herald of the Agamemnon
    pp 29-50
  • Accounting the Dead
  • Chapter 2 - The Chorus of the Agamemnon
    pp 51-68
  • Human Views on the Beyond
  • Chapter 3 - Prophecy on the Banks of the Acheron
    pp 69-90
  • Thinking Cassandra Past Her Doom
  • Chapter 4 - Afterlives at the Tomb of Agamemnon
    pp 91-113
  • Chapter 5 - Heroes in the Oresteia
    pp 114-144
  • Chapter 6 - The Ghost of Clytemnestra
    pp 145-175
  • Chapter 7 - The Tablet-Writing Mind of Hades
    pp 176-212
  • Omniscient Ethical Judgment
  • Conclusions
    pp 213-227
  • References
    pp 228-242
  • General Index
    pp 243-245
  • Index Locorum
    pp 246-248

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