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| List of Plates | ||
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| 1 | Aeschylus' Persae and History | 1 |
| 2 | Constructing the Heroic | 21 |
| 3 | Tragic Filters for History: Euripides' Supplices and Sophocles' Philoctetes | 39 |
| 4 | The Theatre Audience, the Demos, and the Suppliants of Aeschylus | 63 |
| 5 | Leading the Tragic Khoros: Tragic Prestige in the Democratic City | 81 |
| 6 | The Place and Status of Foreigners in Athenian Tragedy | 109 |
| 7 | Between Public and Private: Tragedy and Athenian Experience of Rhetoric | 121 |
| 8 | Gods Cruel and Kind: Tragic and Civic Theology | 143 |
| 9 | Tragedy and Religion: Constructs and Readings | 161 |
| 10 | The Ecstasy and the Tragedy: Varieties of Religious Experience in Art, Drama, and Society | 187 |
| 11 | Conclusion | 213 |
| References | 237 | |
| Index of Passages Cited | 257 | |
| General Index | 265 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $130.04 | Digital |
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James Rudland
reviewed Greek Tragedy and the Historian on November 03, 2020
Greek Tragedy and the Historian
I lived with this book for several years while writing "Lady Godiva and Me" and it was endlessly fascinating, provocative and useful. It not only investigates the historical reality behind the legend, (no, she probably didn't) discussing what life would have been like for an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman whose legal standing was probably theoretically better than any of her descendants until the twentieth century (hence she didn't need to), but it follows the story though its numerous retellings to Tennyson and beyond.
Although a scholarly book it is very easy to read and both thought provoking and entertaining, offering a wide range of related themes to follow up. I plundered his bibliography and it leads to some fascinating places.
An excellent example of following a story through all its cultural reincarnations across time even if you aren't interested in a fictional story about naked women riding round a non existent town.
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