Beyond death in the Oresteia : poetics, ethics, and politics /

"Afterlives in the Oresteia Similarly, David said to the Holy One, blessed be He, "make me to know my end," that is, he wished to know to which end he was allotted, and his mind was not at rest 'til the good tidings reached him, "Sit at my right hand" (Ps. 110:1). (Zoha...

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Main Author: Shilo, Amit, 1978- (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
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520 |a "Afterlives in the Oresteia Similarly, David said to the Holy One, blessed be He, "make me to know my end," that is, he wished to know to which end he was allotted, and his mind was not at rest 'til the good tidings reached him, "Sit at my right hand" (Ps. 110:1). (Zohar Bereshith, 1.63a)1 Dear to the dear ones who nobly died over there, being prominent as an august lord under the earth and an attendant of the greatest chthonic rulers there. For when you lived you were king of those wielding in their hands destined fate and the mortal-persuading scepter. (Choephoroi 354-62) Preoccupation with one's lot after death has been suggested as the starting point of all philosophical thinking and is one of the central concerns of world religions. It is evident in the first quotation from the Zohar, as it is in innumerable other religious texts.2 In Ancient Greece, mystery cults promised a better afterlife - but antiquity's profound silence has segregated them from the mainstream of Greek religion. Unlike the scriptures and commentaries of numerous other religions, the only openly circulating Ancient Greek texts outspoken about the afterlife are philosophical and literary"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Abbreviations and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Herald of the Agamemnon: Accounting the Dead -- Chapter 2 The Chorus of the Agamemnon: Human Views on the Beyond -- Chapter 3 Prophecy on the Banks of the Acheron: Thinking Cassandra Past Her Doom -- Chapter 4 Afterlives at the Tomb of Agamemnon -- Chapter 5 Heroes in the Oresteia -- Chapter 6 The Ghost of Clytemnestra -- Chapter 7 The Tablet-Writing Mind of Hades: Omniscient Ethical Judgment -- Conclusions -- References 
505 8 |a General Index -- Index Locorum 
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