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Roberto Morales-Harley

Published On

2024-08-29

Page Range

pp. 79–132

Language

  • English

Print Length

54 pages

3. The Ambush

The Tale of the Tricked Trickster

Chapter of: The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater (pp. 79–132)

Chapter 3 deals with the ambush motif in Iliad 10, Ps.-Euripides’ Rhesus, Mahābhārata 4, and (Ps.-)Bhāsa’s The Five Nights. In this case, nine parallelisms are highlighted between the plays, including the subjects of death and violence on stage (frowned upon in both traditions) as well as what closely mirrors Aristotelian anagnorisis in Sanskrit theater.

Contributors

Roberto Morales-Harley

(author)
Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Head of the Department of Classical Philology at Universidad de Costa Rica
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4752-8588

Roberto Morales-Harley holds a doctorate in Humanities from the University of Malaga, a master’s degrees in Languages of the Ancient World from the University of Murcia and in Classical Literature from the University of Costa Rica, as well as licenciate and bachelor’s degrees in Classical Philology from the University of Costa Rica. He has studied Sanskrit at the Universities of Costa Rica, Murcia, and the Australian National University. He is currently Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Head of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Costa Rica.