Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy
Title | Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Richmond Lattimore |
Publisher | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 126 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Greek drama (Tragedy) |
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"When Aristotle said that tragedy is an imitation of action, he meant that apart from other purposes and interests tragedy always acts out a story. With this definition in mind, the author examines the most important story patterns found in Greek tragedy. He asks: What are the most important story patterns found in Greek drama? What stories were available for the use of poets like Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides? What did tradition require, permit or forbid them to use? Bringing in many related elements of Greek tragedy, the author defines each of the story patterns suitable to the genre -- tracing the roots to the folklore and myths of ancient Greece." -- Back cover.
Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy
Title | Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Richmond Lattimore |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 106 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Greek drama (Tragedy) |
ISBN |
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | P. E. Easterling |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 414 |
Release | 1997-10-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521423519 |
As a creative medium, ancient Greek tragedy has had an extraordinarily wide influence: many of the surviving plays are still part of the theatrical repertoire, and texts like Agamemnon, Antigone, and Medea have had a profound effect on Western culture. This Companion is not a conventional introductory textbook but an attempt, by seven distinguished scholars, to present the familiar corpus in the context of modern reading, criticism, and performance of Greek tragedy. There are three main emphases: on tragedy as an institution in the civic life of ancient Athens, on a range of different critical interpretations arising from fresh readings of the texts, and on changing patterns of reception, adaptation, and performance from antiquity to the present. Each chapter can be read independently, but each is linked with the others, and most examples are drawn from the same selection of plays.
Interpreting Greek Tragedy
Title | Interpreting Greek Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Segal |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 491 |
Release | 2019-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501746715 |
This generous selection of published essays by the distinguished classicist Charles Segal represents over twenty years of critical inquiry into the questions of what Greek tragedy is and what it means for modern-day readers. Taken together, the essays reflect profound changes in the study of Greek tragedy in the United States during this period-in particular, the increasing emphasis on myth, psychoanalytic interpretation, structuralism, and semiotics.
Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy
Title | Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Richmond Alexander Lattimore |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Drama |
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Stories from the Greek Tragedians
Title | Stories from the Greek Tragedians PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred John Church |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Children's stories |
ISBN |
Greek Literature
Title | Greek Literature PDF eBook |
Author | P. E. Easterling |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 236 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Classical drama |
ISBN | 9780521359825 |
"The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index."--Publisher's description.