Myth and tragedy in ancient Greece

by Vernant, Jean-Pierre

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Title Statements

Full title :Myth and tragedy in ancient Greece / Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet ; translated by Janet Lloyd.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1996, 1990
Edition:1st paperback edition, revised, 5th printing

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Zone Books
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1996, 1990

The Physical Object

Description:527 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0942299191, 9780942299199, 0942299183, 9780942299182
oclc:ocn505314655
LC Classification:PA3131
Dewey Decimal:938

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.

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Grèce -- Conditions sociales -- Jusqu'à… Grèce -- Mœurs et coutumes Greece Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B… Greece -- Social life and customs Greek drama (Tragedy) Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and cr… Manners and customs Mythologie grecque Mythologie grecque dans la littérature Mythology, Greek Mythology, Greek, in literature Social conditions To 146 B.C Tragédie grecque -- Histoire et critique