"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…
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Discussing the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, this title examines the genre and the society that it produced such works. Papyrus finds over the last 100 years have altered and supplemented our understanding of the Greek culture of this time, and this title reflects …
In this study of the relationship between a modern philosophical idea and an ancient historical moment, Lauren Apfel explores how the notion of pluralism, made famous by Isaiah Berlin, features in the classical Greek world and, more specifically, in the thought of three of its m…
Oedipus presents ceaseless paradoxes. He is proud of his intellect, but he does not know himself and succumbs easily to self-deceptions. As a ruler he expresses the good will toward his people, but as an exile he will do nothing to save them from their enemies. Faced with a damn…
Illustrates how the theatre and Sophoclean tragedy, in particular, was crucial to the life and politics of the time.
