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Myth and tragedy in ancient Greece
- Title
- Myth and tragedy in ancient Greece / Jean-Pierre Vernant, Pierre Vidal-Naquet ; translated by Janet Lloyd.
- Author
- Vernant, Jean-Pierre, 1914-2007.
- Publication
- New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PA3131 .V413 1988 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Vidal-Naquet, Pierre, 1930-2006.
- Description
- 527 pages; 27 cm
- Uniform Title
- Mythe et tragédie en Grèce ancienne. English
- Alternative Title
- Mythe et tragédie en Grèce ancienne.
- Subject
- Note
- Translation of: Mythe et tragédie en Grèce ancienne.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- The historical moment of tragedy in Greece: some of the social and psychological conditions -- Tensions and ambiguities in Greek tragedy -- Intimations of the will in Greek tragedy -- Oedipus without the complex -- Ambiguity and reversal: on the enigmatic structure of Oedipus Rex -- Hunting and sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia -- Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Ephebeia -- The god of tragic fiction -- Features of the mask in ancient Greece -- The lame tyrant: from Oedipus to Periander -- The tragic subject: historicity and transhistoricity -- Aeschylus, the past and the present -- The shields of the heroes -- Oedipus in Athens -- Oedipus between two cities: an essay on Oedipus at Colonus -- Oedipus in Vicenza and in Paris -- The masked Dionysus of Euripides' Bacchae.
- ISBN
- 0942299183
- 9780942299182
- 0942299191 (pbk.)
- 9780942299199 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 87034050
- 99820075646
- OCLC
- 17199745
- ocm17199745\
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries