Description: Matricide and Sunshine: Dionysus and the Electra Plays by Carl Ruck- New, paperback, signed. In the Hellenistic age, when the works of ancient Greece had become classics, three fifth-century tragedians were selected, one from each successive generation, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as the most typical; and a selection of just a few plays of each was canonized for the educational system. The curriculum was designed for the comparison of the three. To facilitate this agendum, a tragedy from each upon the same mythical theme was included, Electra, who instigated her brother Orestes to kill their mother Clytemnestra because she had killed her husband Agamemnon, either because she had taken a new lover, or because her husband had killed their daughter. Sunshine and Matricide places these three plays (Choephoroe and the two versions of Electra) in their context within the ecstatic, drug-induced mind-altering rituals of Dionysus/Bacchus, the divine patron of the theater. Four other tragedies are examined as the aftermath, the future career of a matricide: Euripides Orestes, Iphigeneia in Aulis, Iphigeneia in Tauris, and Andromache.
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Book Title: Matricide and Sunshine
Signed: Yes
Item Length: 9.5
Publisher: Entheomedia and Regent Press
City: San Francisco
Publication Year: 2011
Type: Academic History
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.8in.
Author: Carl Ruck
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion
Topic: Entheogens & Visionary Substances, Spirituality
Item Width: 6in.
Item Weight: 10.5 oz
Number of Pages: 174
