Niobes

<div>A marginalized but persistent figure of Greek tragedy Niobe whose many children were killed by Apollo and Artemis embodies yet problematizes the philosophically charged dialectics between life and death mourning and melancholy animation and inanimation silence and logos. The essays in <i>Niobes</i> present her as a set of complex figurations an elusive mythical character but also an overdetermined figure who has long exerted a profound influence on various modes of modern thought especially in the domains of aesthetics ethics psychoanalysis and politics. As a symbol of both exclusion and resistance Niobe calls for critical attention at a time of global crisis. Reconstructing the dialogues of Phillis Wheatley G. W. F. Hegel Walter Benjamin Aby Warburg and others with Niobe as she appears in Aeschylus Sophocles Ovid and the visual arts a collective of major thinkers-classicists art historians and critical theorists-reflect on the space that she can occupy in the humanities today. Inspiring new ways of connecting the classical tradition and ancient tragic discourse with crises and political questions relating to gender race and social justice Niobe insists on living on. Contributors: Barbara Baert Andrew Benjamin drea brown Adriana Cavarero Rebecca Comay Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak John T. Hamilton Paul A. Kottman Jacques Lezra Andres Matlock Ben Radcliffe Victoria Rimell Mario Telò Mathura Umachandran Daniel Villegas Vélez</div>