Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy

Name: Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy
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By Jonah Radding

Series: Hellenic Studies Series

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Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy by Jonah Radding explores how Euripides' plays reflect and interrogate political thought in ancient Greece. Radding delves into the role of poetry as a powerful medium that shapes civic values and questions societal norms. The book offers insights into the intersection of dramatic art and political consciousness in classical Athens.
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This book may appeal to you if you are fascinated by Greek tragedy and its exploration of political themes. It delves into how Euripides uses poetry to engage with the social and political issues of his time, offering readers a deeper understanding of his dramatic works within their historical context. Ideal for those interested in classical literature, philosophy, and the intersection of art and politics.

Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy

In Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy, Jonah Radding contends that political issues addressed in Euripides’s tragedies are inextricably related to his use of choral lyric genres such as paean and epinician, and to his engagement with canonical texts such as the Iliad and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon. Poetry and politics each illuminate the other.

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Most critics agree that Euripidean tragedy addresses a wealth of political questions, and that it successfully incorporates and engages with a variety of ancient Greek poetic traditions. Nevertheless, these topics and questions have generally been treated separately.

In this book, Jonah Radding contends that the political issues addressed in Euripides' tragedies are inextricably related to his employment of choral lyric genres such as paean and epinician, and to his engagement with canonical poetic texts such as the Iliad and Aeschylus' Agamemnon.

We see that Euripides consistently recasts traditional poetic genres and texts in order to dramatize and illuminate political questions that are central to his tragedies. At the same time, Radding suggests that the dramatic politicization of the poetic tradition also serves to question the manner in which ancient Athenians understood and utilised these various poetic forms in their own polis.

Ultimately, we see that the relationship between poetry and politics in Euripidean tragedy is truly reciprocal, for both aspects illuminate—and are illuminated by—the other, each becoming a more powerful force in the process.