UID:
edocfu_9959231809602883
Format:
1 online resource (303 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-770483-2
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1-280-53059-6
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0-19-535124-X
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1-4294-0482-5
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This volume argues that Greek tragedy as a genre is characterized by plots centering on kin killing. It contains a detailed analysis of five plays, and comprehensive documentation of this plot pattern in all of the extant tragedies, and in the lost plays of the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2000.
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Contents; A Note on Spelling and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Philia Relationships and Greek Literature; 2. Averting Fratricide: Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris; 3. The Suppliant Bride: Io and the Danaïds in Aiskhylos's Suppliants; 4. A Token of Pain: Betrayal of Xenia in Sophokles' Philoktetes; 5. Sleeping With the Enemy: Euripides' Andromakhe; 6. Killing One's Closest Philos: Self-Slaughter in Sophokles' Aias; Conclusion; Appendix A. Violation of Philia in the Extant Tragedies; Appendix B. Violation of Philia in the Fragments of the Major Tragedians
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Appendix C. Violation of Philia in the Fragments of the Minor TragediansNotes; Glossary; Works Cited; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-513149-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780195131499.001.0001
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