The rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as the educational landscape of the city

The article describes the mention of the rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and shows how the topography was combined with historical and mythological meanings in the mass consciousness of the Greeks of the Classical p...

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Main Author: Andrej Mozhajsky
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description The article describes the mention of the rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and shows how the topography was combined with historical and mythological meanings in the mass consciousness of the Greeks of the Classical period. Information of the narrative tradition is correlated with the archaeological data and topographical characteristics of Thebes, in particular the acropolis of Thebes – Kadmeia. In our opinion, the mention of the source of Dirke and the river Ismenos in Attic tragedies conveys the approximate western and eastern borders of Thebes of Mycenaean time. Unlike the opinion expressed by Schober and supported by Symeonoglou that it would be too much for Thebes of the Mycenaean time to have seven gates, on the basis of literary tradition, topographical and archaeological data, we believe that Kadmeia of the Late Bronze Age could have seven gates.Taking into account the fragments of the krater of the Late Helladic IIIC Middle which depicting warriors and were found during the excavations of Kadmeia in 2014, the continuity of the epic motifs of the vase painting was traced in 1200–1100. BC. in Mycenae, Thebes, Kalapodi and in Kino. These subjects regain their power in Late Geometric and Archaic art, which confirms the oral tradition that separates the Mycenaean epoch from Homeric times. The same is shown by the findings of the postpalatial burials in the chamber tombs discovered around the Kadmeia, which were associated with the re­use of earlier tombs as places of memory and / or worship of the first buried. This memory of the Mycenaean times in the Classical period, in our opinion, was a part of the educational system for a wide audience, which was also reproduced through the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides, which also reflected the city educational landscape of Thebes with their monuments and places of worship, including status burials of Middle Helladic and Mycenaean times.
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spelling doaj.art-39ee167fe4364a5786a6195cb75d124e2022-12-22T01:28:34ZengHypothekaiHypothekai2587-71272587-71272018-06-0127996doi.org/10.32880/2587-7127-2018-2-2-79-96The rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as the educational landscape of the cityAndrej Mozhajsky0Moscow State Pedagogical UniversityThe article describes the mention of the rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides and shows how the topography was combined with historical and mythological meanings in the mass consciousness of the Greeks of the Classical period. Information of the narrative tradition is correlated with the archaeological data and topographical characteristics of Thebes, in particular the acropolis of Thebes – Kadmeia. In our opinion, the mention of the source of Dirke and the river Ismenos in Attic tragedies conveys the approximate western and eastern borders of Thebes of Mycenaean time. Unlike the opinion expressed by Schober and supported by Symeonoglou that it would be too much for Thebes of the Mycenaean time to have seven gates, on the basis of literary tradition, topographical and archaeological data, we believe that Kadmeia of the Late Bronze Age could have seven gates.Taking into account the fragments of the krater of the Late Helladic IIIC Middle which depicting warriors and were found during the excavations of Kadmeia in 2014, the continuity of the epic motifs of the vase painting was traced in 1200–1100. BC. in Mycenae, Thebes, Kalapodi and in Kino. These subjects regain their power in Late Geometric and Archaic art, which confirms the oral tradition that separates the Mycenaean epoch from Homeric times. The same is shown by the findings of the postpalatial burials in the chamber tombs discovered around the Kadmeia, which were associated with the re­use of earlier tombs as places of memory and / or worship of the first buried. This memory of the Mycenaean times in the Classical period, in our opinion, was a part of the educational system for a wide audience, which was also reproduced through the tragedies of Aeschylus and Euripides, which also reflected the city educational landscape of Thebes with their monuments and places of worship, including status burials of Middle Helladic and Mycenaean times.http://www.hypothekai.ru/images/Nomera/2/-Hypothekai_1-282-79-96.pdfThebes
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title The rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as the educational landscape of the city
title_full The rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as the educational landscape of the city
title_fullStr The rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as the educational landscape of the city
title_full_unstemmed The rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as the educational landscape of the city
title_short The rivers and the gates of Thebes in the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, as the educational landscape of the city
title_sort rivers and the gates of thebes in the tragedies of aeschylus sophocles and euripides as the educational landscape of the city
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