The mythic story of Niobe, who loses her children due to hubris and is eventually transformed into a crying rock on Mount Sipylos, is well known and rearticulated throughout classical Greek literature. In this master’s thesis I aim to examine fragment 154a of Aeschylus’ lost tragedy Niobe in order to show the significance of the tragic re-enactment of silence and grief. Furthermore, I argue that the fragment of Aeschylus manifests political and aesthetic aspects that enable an immersed and widened understanding of the genre. Loraux (1997/2002) and Montiglio (2000) indicate that there might be a female correlate to the epic tradition of safeguarding honour after death. As I point out in this thesis, there is a potential gap in the study of how ancient Greek literature reenacts such alternative themes and experiences of memory and oblivion. A decisive consequence of the analysis is the new understanding of a tragic hero(ine) inverting the ancient epic tradition of remembrance, glory, and immortality typically accompanying male heroes. By means of classical perspectives on grief, as well as more recent studies of acoustic aesthetics in ancient Greek culture (Nooter 2017), the thesis demonstrates how Niobe can be viewed as a prime symbol of the tragic female, whose resistance to forget resonates throughout the tragic corpus.

Diese Examensarbeit untersucht die Intertextualität und die Hintergrundinformation des Theateressays die Schutzbefohlenen von Elfriede Jelinek. Es werden dabei aktuelle Ereignisse untersucht und die von Jelinek angegebenen Intertexte.

The matter of the Good in classical Greek philosophy and literature is so important and extensive that it can hardly be covered in one document. Therefore the aim of the first part of the thesis is to express both fundamental context and critical attitude towards the concept of the Good in the philosophy of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The second part provides a coherent perspective on the development of archaic literature in terms of forming the idea of gods, virtues, good and evil in classical Greek epic and tragedy. Theoretical basis of the thesis relies on the studies of important philosophers, literature historians, religionists and mythologists, whose views are connected systematically or outlined comparatively in corresponding chapters. Both main parts of the thesis are divided into chapters which follow in logical sequence. The thesis is theoretical and corresponds to the assigned topic.

SLOVENE NATIONAL THEATRE IN LJUBLJANA Author Report Of The Diploma Work Author: Bc. Petr Hýl Supervisor: doc. ing. arch. Zdeněk Makovský