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1 online resource (217 pages) |
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Oxford Classical Monographs |
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Oxford classical monographs.
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| Contents |
Contents; Abbreviations, editions cited, and note on translations; Introduction; 1. Preliminary Studies: The Supernatural and Causation in Herodotus; 2. Inherited Guilt; 3. Curses; 4. Erinyes; 5. Irruption and Insight? The Intangible Burden of the Supernatural in Sophocles' Labdacid Plays and Electra; 6. Fate, Freedom, Decision Making: Eteocles and Others; Conclusion; References; Index Locorum; General Index |
| Summary |
Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the provoking and exciting of emotion, neither of which can be ignored if the texts are to be fully understood. He pays particular attention to Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes andthe Phoenician Women of Euripides, both of which dramatize the sorrows of the later generations of the House of Oedipus, but |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Blessing and cursing in literature.
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Decision making in literature.
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Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Guilt in literature.
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Literature.
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Literature
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Blessing and cursing in literature
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Decision making in literature
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Greek literature
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Guilt in literature
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Literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191527777 |
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0191527777 |
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9780199227334 |
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0199227330 |
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