| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
ix, 453 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Emotion and meaning in Greek tragedy / Oliver Taplin -- Decision and responsibility in the tragedy of Aeschylus / Albin Lesky -- The shield of Eteocles / Helen H. Bacon -- Salamis Symphony: the Persae of Aeschylus / S.M. Adams -- The Suppliants of Aeschylus / Hugh Lloyd-Jones -- The guilt of Agamemnon / Hugh Lloyd-Jones -- Imagery and action in the Oresteia / Ann Lebeck -- Clytemnestra and the vote of Athena / R.P. Winnington-Ingram -- Prometheia / George Thomson -- Aeschylus: the last phase / C.J. Herington -- Character in Sophocles / P.E. Easterling -- Ajax / Karl Reinhardt -- Antigone: death and love, Hades and Dionysus / Charles Segal -- On misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex / E.R. Dodds -- Ambiguity and reversal: on the enigmatic structure of Oedipus Rex / Jean-Pierre Vernant -- The Electra of Sophocles: prolegomena to an interpretation / R.P. Winnington-Ingram -- Philoctetes and modern criticism / P.E. Easterling -- Apocalypse: Oedipus at Colonus / Cedric H. Whitman -- Euripides: poet of paradox / Erich Segal -- The virtues of Admetus / Anne Pippin Burnett -- The Medea of Euripides / Bernard M.W. Knox -- On Euripides' Medea / Eilhard Schlesinger -- The Hippolytus of Euripides / Bernard M.W. Knox -- The Trojan women / D.J. Conacher -- Orestes / Christian Wolff -- Euripides' final phase: the Bacchae / Hans Diller -- Tragedy and religion: the Bacchae / Thomas G. Rosenmeyer -- Fear and suffering in Aeschylus and Euripides / Jacqueline de Romilly -- From tragedy to philosophy: Iphigenia in Aulis / Bruno Snell. |
| Subject |
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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| Added Author |
Segal, Erich, 1937-2010.
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| ISBN |
0060152036 |
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0060910801 (paperback) |
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