Mythological heroes on Czech stages and politics. The case of Phaethon and Antigone
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F23%3A00571928" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/23:00571928 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clad005" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clad005</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/crj/clad005" target="_blank" >10.1093/crj/clad005</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Mythological heroes on Czech stages and politics. The case of Phaethon and Antigone
Original language description
Czech culture and society have abundant experience of repressive regimes and political oppression, as well as censorship and bans on speaking publicly and critically about the political situation. This article focuses on two dramatizations of ancient Greek myth and demonstrates their connection with politics: Phaethon by Otakar Theer (1917) is an expression of rebellion against the bondage of the Czech nation in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, while The Whore from the City of Thebes by Milan Uhde (1967), a paraphrase of Sophocles’ Antigone, is a cynical analysis of the state of civil society in totalitarian communist Czechoslovakia. These plays tried to appeal to the audiences of the time allegorically, using ‘Aesopian language’ and parables. Both reinterpretations of Greek myth are analysed in their historical and cultural context and compared with contemporary adaptations of classical Greek tragedies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Classical Receptions Journal
ISSN
1759-5134
e-ISSN
1759-5142
Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
172-189
UT code for WoS article
000951818300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85159829474