Description |
xi, 1 unnumbered page, 242 pages, 1 leaf ; 23 cm |
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Oxford paperbacks |
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Oxford paperbacks.
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Contents |
How Aeschylus created the tragedy; transfiguration of myths; the Prometheus story; the Io story -- The stage technique of Aeschylus; experiments; "Mechanai"; "Terateia" -- Aeschylus as a poet of ideas; Aristophanes misleading; the mystical plays; "Supplices" and Prometheus: the Oresteia -- The war plays; "Persae" and the "Seven Against Thebes" -- Evidence of the fragments; the sources of tragedy: the Dionysus myth: "The banquets of Homer"; the place of the satyr play -- The Oresteia -- Appendix: A scenario of the "Agamemnon" |
Analysis |
Aeschylus Criticism and interpretation |
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Tragedy |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Aeschylus -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Aeschylus.
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Genre/Form |
Tragedies (Drama)
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LC no. |
40027579 |
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