Euripidean Polemic: The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press Summary: The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of interpretation, he is able to offer a coherent view of a number of longstanding problems in Euripidean criticism, for instanc [read more]
9780521041126
ISBN:0521041120
Pub Date: 2007Publisher: Cambridge University Press Summary: The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of interpretation, he is able to offer a coherent view of a number of longstanding problems in Euripidean criticism, for instanc [read more]
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Pub Date: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
9780521041126
ISBN:
0521041120
Pub Date: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The book offers an interpretation of Euripides' The Trojan Women which issues from the argument that the function of Greek tragedy was to educate. The author demonstrates that the play performs its function by examining Athenian ideology. By making the didactic function of tragedy the basis of interpretation, he is able to offer a coherent view of a number of longstanding problems in Euripidean criticism, for instance, the relation of Euripides to the Sophists.
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