Euripidean Polemic
Euripidean Polemic
The Trojan Women and the Function of Tragedy
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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 long-standing problems in Euripidean criticism, for instance, the relation of Euripides to the Sophists.
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October 1994Hardback
9780521464901
328 pages
223 × 144 × 22 mm
0.48kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Teaching, ideology and war
- 2. Polarities
- 3. The agōn
- 4. Space and time
- 5. As if war had given a lecture
- Appendix: ideology and war
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of passages cited.
