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Zusatztext 'meticulous attention to detail ... The Oxford University Press is to be thanked for bringing together in one weighty volume the unfailingly insightful explorations of such a gently humorous! subtle and sensitive interpreter of Greek tragic texts.'Michael Comber! St. John's College! Oxford! The Journal of Hellenic Studies! Vol. CXII! 1992 Informationen zum Autor Died 1985. Klappentext This volume presents some twenty-five papers by the late great scholar T.C.W. Stinton, most previously published only in specialized journals. Dealing with a wide range of topics surrounding Greek tragedy, the papers include discussions of Euripides on the judgement of Paris, Iphigeneia and the bears of Brauron, the riddle at Colonus, Horation echoes, and Phaedrus and folklore. Zusammenfassung This volume contains 26 of T.C.W.Stinton's essays and reviews, mainly on Greek tragedy, covering his work from 1960 until his death in 1985. The papers include "Euripides and the Judgement of Paris" and "The Scope and Limits of Allusion in Greek Tragedy". Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; Review of G. Meautis, L'Authenticite et la Date du Promethee Enchaine d'Eschyle; Communications: The First Sicilian War (with W. G. G. Forrest); Two rare verse forms; Euripides and the Judgment of Paris; Review of R. D. Dawe, The Collation and Investigation of Manuscripts of Aeschylus; Mr Dawe on Aeschylus: some notes; Review of C. J. Herington, The author of the Prometheus Bound; Agamemnon 1127 and the Limits of Hyperbaton; More rare verse forms; Hamartia in Aristotle and Greek tragedy; Iphigenia and the Bears of Brauron; Note: Solon, Fragment 25; Notes on Greek tragedy, I; 'Si Credere Dignum Est': Some expressions of disbelief in Euripides and others; The riddle at Colonus; Notes on Greek tragedy II; Pause and period in the lyrics of Greek tragedy; Interlinear Hiatus in Trimeter; Horatian Echoes; The first stasimon of Aeschylus' Choephori; Phaedrus and folklore: An old problem restated; Heracles' homecoming and related topics: The second stasimon of Sophocles'; Trachiniae: Greek tragic texts and the limits of conservatism; Sophocles, Trachiniae 94-102; The scope and limits of allusion in Greek tragedy; The apotheosis of Heracles from the pyre; Index...
