Recently added articles from Helios:
"Too difficult for a single man to understand": Medea's out-jutting foot.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Buchan, Mark ... I The Aegeus scene, set squarely in the middle of Euripides' Medea, has received a great deal of critical attention, set in motion largely by the enigmatic comment of Aristotle that this episode is improperly motivated (alogia). (1) For all that Medea needs a safe haven, and ...
Panegyris channels Penelope: Metis and Pietas in Plautus's Stichus.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Krauss, Amanda N. ... Plautus's Stichus is an odd play. Instead of a traditional New Comic plot, we find a tripartite structure that highlights different groups of characters at the beginning, middle, and end. Furthermore, there is a marked change in the tone, which descends from a highly moral beginning to ...
Language, satire, and heteroglossia in the Cena Trimalchionis.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Goldman, Max L. ... I. Introduction In the Cena Trimalchionis, the protagonist of the Satyrica, a poor but well-educated nebbish of uncertain social status, descends into the house of the fabulously wealthy and fabulously gauche Trimalchio for a theatrical dinner party. The nouveau riche at table ...
Seneca's nausea: "Existential" experiences and Julio-Claudian literature.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2008; Lampe, Kurt ... A proper commentary, however, never understands the text better than its author understood it, though it certainly understands it differently. Only this difference in understanding must be such that it encounters the same thing which the explicated text is meditating. --Martin ...
Review essay: the romance of tragedy and psychoanalysis.(Euripides, Freud, and the Romance of Belonging)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2008; Wohl, Victoria ... In The Interpretation of Dreams, in the chapter on dreamwork under the heading of "absurd dreams," Freud tells of the following dream: "A man who had nursed his father during his last illness and had been deeply grieved by his death, had the following senseless dream some time afterwards ....