Greek Tragedy and the Historian

Zusatztext '...The collection is impressively varied and illuminating...' Informationen zum Autor Pelling is also at the University of Western Australia Klappentext Tragedy was central to the experience of being a fifth-century Athenian citizen. Tragedy explored fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central source for the reconstruction and analysis of the Athenian thought and world. This collection of eleven papers investigates the methods and pitfalls of using tragedy to illuminate fifth-century thought, culture, and society. Zusammenfassung Tragedy was central to the experience of being a Athenian citizen and should be the richest of all sources for illuminating fifth-century society and thought, yet it is particularly difficult for a historian to use. This collection of eleven essays investigates the methods and pitfalls of using tragedy to illuminate history.

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• Authors: C.B.R. Pelling, Christopher Pelling, Christopher (Fellow and Praelector in Cla Pelling
• Assisted by: Christopher Pelling (Editor), Pelling Christopher (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.1997
• EAN: 9780198149873
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814987-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights