Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy

In Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy, Jonah Radding contends that political issues addressed in Euripides’s tragedies are inextricably related to his use of choral lyric genres such as paean and epinician, and to his engagement with canonical texts such as the Iliad and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon. Poetry and politics each illuminate the other.

In Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy, Jonah Radding sustine ca problemele politice abordate in tragediile lui Euripide sunt indisolubil legate de utilizarea de catre acesta a genurilor lirice corale, cum ar fi peeanul si epinicianul, si de implicarea sa cu texte canonice precum Iliada si Agamemnonul lui Eschil. Poezia si politica se lumineaza fiecare pe cealalta.