Greek tragedy and the historian / edited by Christopher Pelling.
Greek tragedy and the historian / edited by Christopher Pelling.
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Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
Call Numbers
N882.0109/18
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Language
English
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Physical content
xii, 268 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Aeschylus' Persae and History / Christopher Pelling -- 2. Constructing the Heroic / P. E. Easterling -- 3. Tragic Filters for History: Euripides' Supplices and Sophocles' Philoctetes / A. M. Bowie -- 4. The Theatre Audience, the Demos, and the Suppliants of Aeschylus / Alan H. Sommerstein -- 5. L...
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Publisher
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
The tragic theatre was no mere diversion for a fifth-century Athenian: it was a focal part of the experience of being a citizen. Tragedy explores fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central source for the reconstruction and analysis of the Athenian thought-world. Yet it is also a peculiarly...
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Greek tragedy and the historian / edited by Christopher Pelling.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-256) and indexes.
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N882.0109/18
Record Identifier
74Vvp8pAm64b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvp8pAm64b
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ISBN
0198149875 (hb : acid-free paper)
9780198149873 (hb : acid-free paper)
DDC
882.0109
MMS ID
991005349279702626
