Thesis--University of Chicago, 1912. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis--University of Chicago, 1912. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

Thesis--Université de Paris. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 310-315).

Habilitationsschrift--Tübingen. / Bibliography: p. [435]-439.

Thesis--University of Chicago, 1912. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nebraska, 1919. / "Vita auctoris": p. 107. Reprint. Originally published: Lancaster, Pa. : Press of the New Era Printing Company, 1919. Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-106).

Thesis--Tubingen. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-222).

Στην παρούσα μελέτη οι Βάκχες εξετάζονται ως θεατρικό κείμενο, το οποίο δυνάμει περιέχει τη σκηνική του πραγμάτωση. Η τραγωδία αναλύεται με σκοπό να εντοπιστούν οι σκηνοθετικές ενδείξεις και τα πιθανά σκηνικά προβλήματα και να αναδειχθεί η σχέση και η αλληλεπίδραση κειμένου και παράστασης. / The aim of this study is to present a detailed analysis of the stagecraft of Euripides’ Bacchae. It proposes possible staging arrangements taking into account the text of the play, the staging conventions of 5th century tragedy, the topography of the ancient theatre and parallel scenes from the tragic corpus. The study offers an analysis of the stage action bringing together different elements of performance, such as entrances and exits of the actors and the chorus, masks and costumes, scenery, music and dance, in order to illuminate the meaning constructed by the visual dimension of tragedy.

This study aims (1) to document and classify the materials and techniques of persuasive speech in Euripidean drama, and (2) to develop an understanding of the ways in which the balanced arguments and abstract speculations of Euripidean characters contribute to the construction of plots, themes and characters. The results are intended to be useful both as a contribution to criticism concerned with the "tone" of Euripidean tragedy and as a resource for the study of early oratory and argumentation in the period of the Sophists. The first two chapters classify and analyse speeches and scenes according to dramatic context. In Chapter I, single speeches of several types are shown to rely on similar techniques of presentation and argument. Chapter II analyses patterns of correspondence between the speeches of a scene. The debate scenes of Alkestis and Hippolytos are discussed with a view to determining how stylised and conventional rhetorical material affects our view of the characters involved. Analysis is next offered of some common techniques for the presentation of arguments. Chapter III discusses the "probability argument" and related forms involving the use of rhetorical questions and conditional formulations. Chapter IV examines Euripides' use in argumentative contexts of gnomic material and so-called "utopian reflections". Chapter V considers the use of rhetorical techniques and scenes in three plays. Phaidra's monologue in Hippolytos 373-430 is discussed in terms of its rhetorical purpose and its contribution to important themes and formal relationships in the play. The rhetorical confrontations of the first half of Suppliant Women are seen to contribute to the delaying and highlighting of the action that follows while exploiting an opportunity for abstract moral and political debate. The play-long rhetorical preparation for the sacrifice of Iphigeneia in Iphigeneia at Aulis similarly is shown to serve the purpose of enhancing the importance and value of the girl's death, while involving an intricate formal balancing of scenes and speeches that should be appreciated in its own right.

This thesis explores the form, meaning and development of the escapist theme in Euripides' tragedies. The dramatist's corpus reveals an intense preoccupation with escapism and exhibits it in a wide range of escape wishes and escape choral odes. Most of these, because they fail of their objective, point to the inability of the tragic hero to escape his or her fate as determined by the dark forces of tragedy. Escapism intensifies the well-known Euripidean element of pathos, but in some of the plays its use becomes quite sophisticated evoking irony, ambiguity and paradox. In this way, it sheds light upon the tragic event from a different perspective. In the end, however, the Euripidean oeuvre betrays a strong affirmation of reality in spite of its escapist tendencies. Euripides' innovative use of escapism is, in fact, an ingenious modification and adaptation of older poetic, and as this thesis argues, ritual forms. Finally, the pervasive presence of escapism in Euripides is not irrelevant to the wider political and social atmosphere of late fifth-century Athens.