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9780801872600 Academic Inspection Copy

The Poetry of Greek Tragedy

  • ISBN-13: 9780801872600
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Richmond Lattimore
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2003
  • Format: Paperback 160 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry [DC]
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Is Sophocles the poet ''more important'' than Sophocles the moralist, Sophocles the student of character, or Sophocles the storyteller? In this acclaimed work, eminent classicist Richmond Lattimore examines the complex and varied ways in which Greek poetry contributes to Greek drama. While acknowledging the difficulty of separating poetry–especially in translation–from other aspects of language, Lattimore offers keen insight into plays by Aeschylus (The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven against Thebes, Prometheus Bound), Sophocles (Ajax, Oedipus Tyrannus), and Euripedes (Medea, Helen, The Bacchae).

""Despite the intervening 45 years these essays have something refreshing to offer'that is, an opportunity to read what an accomplished poet makes of Greek tragedies as poetry.""

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