"The surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works are far outnumbered by their lost plays. Between them these authors wrote around two hundred tragedies, the fragmentary remains of which are u…
"This volume begins with an exploration of motion in particular works of visual art, and continues by examining the characteristics of literary depiction. Seven works are then used as examples: Homer's Iliad, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Tacitus' Annals, Sophocles' Philoctetes and Oedi…
"Papyrus finds over the last hundred years have drastically altered and supplemented our knowledge of ancient Greek tragedy. The large body of Greek tragic fragments now known to us gives access to an enormous amount of information - both about the tragic genre and the society i…