| The Myth of Lycurgus in Aeschylus, Naevius, and Beyond Contributor(s): Bednarek, Bartlomiej (Author) |
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ISBN: 900446302X ISBN-13: 9789004463028 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $133.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Ancient And Classical - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Physical Information: 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lycurgus, the king of the Thracian tribe of the Edonians, is the hero of the first attested Greek myth about the resistance against the god Dionysus. According to many scholars, Lycurgus was worshipped as a god among the Thracians, Phrygians, and Syrians. His myth might have been used as a hieros logos in the initiations into the 'Bacchic' and 'Orphic' mysteries in Greece and Rome. This book focuses on Aeschylus' tragic tetralogy Lycurgeia and Naevius' tragedy Lycurgus, the two most important texts that shaped the tradition of the Lycurgus myth, and offers a new and, at times, radically different interpretation of these fragmentary plays and related cultural texts. |