Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece

by Vernant, Jean-Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pierre

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Title Statements

Full title :Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece / Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1990.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Zone Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1990.

Notes

Reimpressions: 2006.

The Physical Object

Description:527 p. : : il. ; : 22 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780942299199, 0942299191
oclc:ocn968789064

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