Reading Greek Tragedy

"First published 1986"--Title page verso.

List of contents

Preface; 1. The drama of logos; 2. The language of appropriation; 3. The city of words; 4. Relations and relationships; 5. Sexuality and difference; 6. Text and tradition; 7. Mind and madness; 8. Blindness and insight; 9. Sophistry, philosophy, rhetoric; 10. Genre and transgression; 11. Performance and performability; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Simon Goldhill is a Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, as well as the Foreign Secretary of the British Academy. He is one of the best-known classicists of his generation who has lectured all over the world, and he has appeared on TV and radio from Canada to Australia. His books have been translated into twelve languages and have won three international prizes. His most recent is The Christian Invention of Time (Cambridge, 2022).

Product details

• Authors: Simon Goldhill, Simon (University of Cambridge) Goldhill, Goldhill Simon, Goldhill Simon Goldhill
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781009183031
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0918303-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Classical Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Classical texts, Ancient World, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman literature