Euripides' revolution under cover an essay

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Cover Title Page, Copyright Contents Acknowledgments 1. Euripides’s Poetic Game and Law of Composition 2. Anthropomorphism 3. The Protection of the Self and the Role of Sophia 4. Some Connotations of Sophia 5. Polyneices’s Truth 6. Hecuba’s Rhetoric 7. Eros in Euripides’s Poetics: Sex as the Cause of the Trojan War 8. The Lewd Gaze of the Eye 9. The Power of Love: Who Is Aphrodite? 10. Phaedra 11. Hermione: The Andromache 12. Female Victims of War: The Troades 13. The Survival in Poetry 14. Figures of Metalepsis: The Invention of “Literature” 15. The Failure of Politics in Euripides’s Poetics: Politics in the Suppliant Women 16. Political Philosophy: A Universal Program of Peace and Progress 17. How to Deliberate a War 18. Democracy and Monarchy 19. The Battle 20. The Rescue of the Corpses 21. Return to Arms 22. The Polis’s Loss of Control and Authority 23. The Bacchants’ Gospel and the Greek City 24. Pentheus and Teiresias 25. Dionysus’s Revenge: First Round 26. Revenge Prepares Its Murderous Weapon 27. Initiation and Sacrifice 28. Victory and Defeat 29. Euripides’s Poetry Bibliography Subject Index Index Locorum