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Author Murray, Gilbert, 1866-1957.

Title Aeschylus : the creator of tragedy / by Gilbert Murray
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1940

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 W'PONDS  880.1 A2533 Z/MUA  AVAILABLE
Description xi, 1 unnumbered page, 242 pages, 1 leaf ; 23 cm
Series Oxford paperbacks
Oxford paperbacks.
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
Tragedy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Aeschylus -- Criticism and interpretation.
Aeschylus.
Genre/Form Tragedies (Drama)
LC no. 40027579