Marriage to Death. The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy. - REHM, R.,
KORTE INHOUD
'The merits of this study is the systematic gathering of references to marriage and death rituals (as advertised). As the jacket blurb states 'the parallels between Greek wedding and death rituals have never been followed through a series of different tragedies as they have here.' Fair enough. This is a useful and profitable endeavor, as is the convenient presentation of practical and iconographical evidence of the first two chapters. Some of the readings and insights (as of Euripides' Suppliants, omitting the facile efforts to historicize and moralize) are worthy on their own, even for more familiar plays. R. knows his Greek, knows the scholarly literature, and works closely with texts in dissertation-like paraphrase. But the second part of the blurb that claims the contribution of this study as revealing 'that these rituals are not used to provide stability but are instead altered in ways that shake up the audience' or that this study offers a 'new perspective on Greek tragedy' is far less accurate. The com...
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Princeton, 1996. 3rd impr. XVIII,246p. ills. Paperback. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: REHM, R.,] [Uitgever: Princeton University Press] [Jaar: 1996] [Titel: Marriage to Death. The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy.]
