Thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton University, 1935. / "Bibliographical index": p. [116]-120.

Based on author's thesis. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.

Based on author's thesis. / Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-238) and index.

This thesis focuses in presenting Miguel de Unamuno’s concept of the tragic. Historically this concept has suffered various changes of meaning and application. If successful the project shall provide the distinct connotation, features, and characteristics that Unamuno attributes to the tragic. His special treatment of the tragic harnesses a way for the will to become aware of its existential condition. This awakening of consciousness evokes an arousal of dichotomies that the will must confront. Faith against reason, religion against science, heart against intellect, are amongst these conflicting predicaments. The will’s constant struggle between these opposing forces constitutes for Unamuno the tragic feeling of life. The will must live between the two and avoid the dangers of ignoring one side of the dichotomy and embrace the other. Quixotic philosophy, Unamuno argues, stands in as a manifestation of the will to salvage itself against the existential calamities of the tragic condition. The quixotic outlook empowers the will for the opportunity to forge an authentic life out of the tragic. Therefore the tragic is a fundamental aspect to understand Unamuno’s existentialism, religion, and philosophy of life.

Virgil's Aeneid departs from his earlier pastoral poetry in featuring herdsmen as agents of violence. His Eclogues characterize herdsmen as musicians who are helpless against the violence of outsiders. In the Aeneid, in contrast, herdsmen both unwittingly catalyze and deliberately take part in acts of war; they never make music. In similes in the epic, the hero Aeneas is compared to a herdsman engaged in activities that are not typically pastoral. Partial studies of pastoral elements in the epic have focused on evaluating Aeneas in moral or political terms or on the aesthetic function of pastoral motifs in "reducing" the subject matter of heroic epic to an Alexandrian scale. I take a different approach, examining pastoral motifs in the Aeneid in relation to Greek models in epic and tragedy. The tragedians regularly use pastoral figures, language, landscapes, and music to set up ironic contrasts between peace and its violation. Identifying this tragic use of pastoral offers insight into Virgil's strategy of intensifying the shocking effect of violence by juxtaposing it with images of pastoral peace. Virgil develops the tragic ambiguity of characters, landscapes, and musical language with pastoral associations to express the underlying tragic tension between Aeneas' constructive aims as a leader and his inevitably destructive methods. / The Classics

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Ο ρόλος της Αρτέμιδος στον Ιππόλυτο και στις δυο Ιφιγένειες. Αναφορά σε σποραδικές εμφανίσεις στις υπόλοιπες τραγωδίες. Άρτεμη πολυσύνθετη θεότητα. Θεά των ορίων, γεωγραφικών και ψυχολογικών. / The role of Artemis in Hippolitos and the two Iphigenias. Reference to her minor appearances in the other tragedies. Artemis, the multifaceted goddess. Goddess of limits, both geographical and psychological.

Θεωρώντας τη «Μήδεια» ως μια τραγωδία λόγου, θα ερευνηθεί στην παρούσα εργασία η σχέση κυρίως της πρωταγωνίστριας με τις ποικίλες μορφές της γλώσσας συμπεριλαμβανομένου ακόμα του «λόγου», του μύθου, δηλαδή των περιπετειών της με τον Ιάσονα. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, έμφαση θα δοθεί στις μορφές του λόγου με πολιτισμικό σημασιολογικό φορτίο, όπως η ικεσία, ο όρκος, ο χρησμός, η επίκληση των θεών, η κατάρα. Ακόμα, θα εξεταστεί ο λόγος ως μέσο πειθούς καθώς και οι τρόποι πειθούς, δηλαδή ο λόγος ως ρητορικό φαινόμενο. Ιδιαίτερη αναφορά θα γίνει στον κατ’ εξοχήν ευριπίδειο ρητορισμό που διέπει τον αγώνα λόγου. Επίσης, μέσα από τη γλώσσα των ηρώων θα βγάλουμε συμπεράσματα για το χαρακτήρα τους και τις ψυχολογικές τους διακυμάνσεις. / -

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 257-269). / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / ix, 269 leaves, bound ill., music 29 cm