Wild justice : a study of Euripides' Hecuba / Judith Mossman.
Wild justice : a study of Euripides' Hecuba / Judith Mossman.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Date
1995.
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N882.01/E89.1/11
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xiii, 283 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. The Raw Material -- 2. Structure and Stagecraft -- 3. Chorus -- 4. Rhetoric and Characterization -- Excursus: Aristotle on Character -- 5. The Death of Polyxena -- 6. Hecuba's Revenge -- 7. Conclusion -- App. A: Text -- App. B: Polyxena and Polydorus -- App. C: Iconography.
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Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
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England
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1995.
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'Revenge is a kind of wild justice ...' (Francis Bacon). Euripides' Hecuba is dominated by the vengeance which Hecuba takes on the faithless Polymestor, and explores in a complex and profound manner the potential of revenge as a subject for tragedy. The sacrifice of Polyxena is in counterpoint to the revenge action; the whole is set in the chaotic...
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Wild justice : a study of Euripides' Hecuba / Judith Mossman.
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Oxford classical monographs.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [264]-274) and indexes.
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N882.01/E89.1/11
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0198147899 (acid-free paper)
9780198147893 (acid-free paper)
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882.01
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991023054999702626
