Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Greek Tragedy Martin

Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Greek TragedyAuthor(s): Bridget Martin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781789621501, 978-1789621501\nSynopsis\nFifth-century Greek tragedy contains some of the most fascinating and important stage-ghosts in Western literature, whether the talkative Persian king Darius, who is evoked from the Underworld in Aeschylus Persians, or the murdered Trojan prince Polydorus, who seeks burial for his exposed corpse in Euripides Hecuba. These manifest figures can tell us a vast amount about the abilities of the tragic dead, particularly in relation to the nature, extent and limitations of their interaction with the living through, for example, ghost-raising ceremonies and dreams. Beyond these manifest dead, tragedy presents a wealth of invisible dead whose anger and desire for revenge bubble up from the Underworld, and whose honour and dishonour occupy t.