Study of Sophoclean Drama

G. M. Kirkwood (1916¿2007) was Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at Cornell University, where he had taught since 1946.

About the author

G. M. Kirkwood (1916-2007) was Frederic J. Whiton Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at Cornell University, where he had taught since 1946.

Summary

This book shows how Sophocles' method of presenting character, his unique handling of myth, his predilection for presenting ideas by comparison and contrast, and his principles of structure are so closely related that they serve to clarify each other.

Product details

• Authors: G M Kirkwood, G. M. Kirkwood, G.m. Kirkwood, Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.1994
• EAN: 9780801482410
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-8241-0
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; Food Systems and Agrarian Chan; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; Cornell Studies in Classical P; Food Systems and Agrarian Chan
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies