TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zacharia,Katerina
TI  - Converging truths: Euripides' Ion and the Athenian quest for self-definition 
T2  - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum,
SN  - 9789004349988
AV  - PA3973.I6 Z33 2003
U1  - 882/.01 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Leiden, Netherlands, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Euripides.
KW  - Ion
KW  - Apollo
KW  - Ion (Euripides)
KW  - fast
KW  - Identity (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Group identity in literature
KW  - Nativism in literature
KW  - Self in literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - Athens (Greece)
KW  - In literature
KW  - Greece
KW  - Athens
N1  - Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1996; Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-212) and index; Preliminary Material --; FROM DELPHI TO ATHENS --; ATHENIAN FOUNDATION MYTHS AND THE ION; IONIANISM AND AUTOCHTHONY --; APOLLO IN THE ION --; THE ION IN THE EURIPIDEAN CORPUS --; EPILOGUE --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; GENERAL INDEX --; INDEX OF ION PASSAGES --; SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE; H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - This book is a study of the Ion of Euripides. Produced in a period of intense political crisis at Athens in 412 BC, this play went to the heart of Athenian self-perception but also highlighted the violent divine grace of Apollo, the intense emotional suffering of Kreousa, and Ion's insistent search for truth despite divine concealment. Informed by recent scholarship on Athenian ethnicity, this study shows how autochthony (claim to being earthborn) and Ionianism (Ionian character of Athens) are conceptually related with Apollo, father of Ion and god of the Delphic oracle where the play is set. Through careful analysis of the political, psychological, religious and poetic aspects of the play and use of modern critical theory, the Ion emerges as a polyphonic work expressing different and converging truths
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004349988
ER  -