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Myth and tragedy in ancient Greece
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Myth and tragedy in ancient Greece

Author: Jean Pierre Vernant; Pierre Vidal-Naquet
Publisher: New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 1988.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jean Pierre Vernant; Pierre Vidal-Naquet
ISBN: 0942299183 9780942299182 0942299191 9780942299199
OCLC Number: 17199745
Notes: Translation of: Mythe et tragédie en Grèce ancienne.
Description: 527 p. ; 27 cm.
Contents: The historical moment of tragedy in Greece: some of the social and psychological conditions -- Tensions and ambiguities in Greek tragedy -- Intimations of the will in Greek tragedy -- Oedipus without the complex -- Ambiguity and reversal: on the enigmatic structure of Oedipus Rex -- Hunting and sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Ephebeia -- The god of tragic fiction -- Features of the mask in ancient Greece -- The lame tyrant: from Oedipus to Periander -- The tragic subject: historicity and transhistoricity -- Aeschylus, the past and the present -- The shields of the heroes -- Oedipus in Athens -- Oedipus between two cities: an essay on Oedipus at Colonus -- Oedipus in Vicenza and in Paris -- The masked Dionysus of Euripides' Bacchae.
Other Titles: Mythe et tragédie en Grèce ancienne.
Responsibility: Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

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