Master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA)
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Migration is timeless: people leave their native country with different motives to settle themselves elsewhere. Scenes that unfold from such events have occasionally been taken to the stage in the...Show moreMigration is timeless: people leave their native country with different motives to settle themselves elsewhere. Scenes that unfold from such events have occasionally been taken to the stage in the genre of Greek tragedy, in the so-called ‘suppliant tragedies’. In such tragedies, the acceptance of newcomers is discussed in terms of ἱκετεία and ξενία, two social institutions of ritual acts through which ancient Greeks could accept newcomers in their social community. Yet, both social institutions evoke different associations in regard to the people involved in the acceptance of a newcomer. In order to understand this combination of both social institutions in Greek tragedy, I would like to analyse it as a means of framing. This thesis, then, investigates the ways in which the arrival and acceptance of newcomers is framed in the following Greek suppliant tragedies: Aeschylus’ Supplices, Sophocles’ Oedipus Coloneus and Euripides’ Heraclidae and Supplices.Show less
Master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA)
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The thesis deals with the reconstruction from mainly literary sources of the public reputation with different social and political groups of the Athenian politician Theramenes, who was put to death...Show moreThe thesis deals with the reconstruction from mainly literary sources of the public reputation with different social and political groups of the Athenian politician Theramenes, who was put to death during the tyrannical regime of The Thirty (404-403 B.C.). It also concerns the development of this reputation from Theramenes' contemporaries till the 1st century B.C.Show less
Master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (MA)
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Deze scriptie bespreekt de functie(s) van de poëtische elementen in de taal van Antiphon 'Tegen de stiefmoeder'. De hypothese is dat deze een persuasieve functie hebben: ze helpen om de stiefmoeder...Show moreDeze scriptie bespreekt de functie(s) van de poëtische elementen in de taal van Antiphon 'Tegen de stiefmoeder'. De hypothese is dat deze een persuasieve functie hebben: ze helpen om de stiefmoeder neer te zetten als een ‘Klytaimestra’, een bewust en intentioneel handelende, en dus schuldige, moordenares van haar man. Het poëtisch idioom moet de jury in de stemming brengen om deze zaak als een 'Oresteia' te zien en te handelen zoals Athene; het frame van de Trachiniae moet de spreker echter buiten beeld zien te houden, omdat dit immers zijn argument verzwakt.Show less
