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Klappentext This volume covers a wide range of topics in Athenian intellectual history. Zusammenfassung This volume covers a wide range of topics in Athenian intellectual history! drawing on the methods of various other disciplines to provoke a reconsideration of outstanding problems and controversies in classical studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Tribute to Harry Mortimer Hubbell; Preface; The Socratic self as it is parodied in Aristophanes' Clouds Eric A. Havelock; 2. The relativism of Protagoras A. Thomas Cole; 3. Thucydides' historical perspective Adam Parry; 4. The psychoanalysis of Pentheus in the Bacchae of Euripides William Sale; 5. Aetiology, ritual, charter: three equivocal terms in the study of myths Geoffrey S. Kirk; 6. Divine and human action in Sophocles: the two burials of the Antigone Marsh McCall; 7. Menander's Samia in the light of the new evidence Hugh Lloyd-Jones; 8. The choral odes of the Bacchae of Euripides Marylin Arthur; 9. Stylistic characterisation in Thucydides: Nicias and Alcibiades Daniel P. Tompkins; 10. Scientific apparatus onstage in 423 BC Robert S. Brumbaugh; 11. Phaedra and the Socratic paradox David Claus; 12. Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulide 1-163 (in that order) Bernard M. W Knox; 13. Notes on Sophocles' Trachiniae Hugh Lloyd-Jones.
