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Greek Tragedy (Routledge Classics)
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Greek Tragedy (Routledge Classics) Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Kitto, H.D.F

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  • Title Greek Tragedy (Routledge Classics)
  • Author Kitto, H.D.F
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New Delhi
  • Date 2011-03-23
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0415610192
  • ISBN 9780415610193 / 0415610192
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Library of Congress subjects Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism, Mythology, Greek, in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011003622
  • Dewey Decimal Code 882.010

From the publisher

Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics.

Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectual questions, the Greek dramatist is above all an artist and the key to understanding classical Greek drama is to try and understand the tragic conception of each play. In Kitto's words 'We shall ask what the dramatist is striving to say, not what in fact he does say about this or that.' Through a brilliant analysis of Aeschylus's 'Oresteia', the plays of Sophocles including 'Antigone' and 'Oedipus Tyrannus'; and Euripides's 'Medea' and 'Hecuba', Kitto skilfully conveys the enduring artistic and literary brilliance of the Greek dramatists.

About the author

H.D.F. Kitto (1897 - 1982) was a renowned British classical scholar. He lectured at the University of Glasgow from 1920-1944 before becoming Professor of Greek at Bristol University, where he taught until 1962.