The Heroic Temper : Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy /

The first two chapters of this book isolate and describe the literary phenomenon of the Sophoclean tragic hero. In all but one of the extant Sophoclean dramas, a heroic figure who is compounded of the same literary elements faced a situation which is essentially the same. The demonstration of this r...

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Main Author: Knox, Bernard M. W. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Edition:Reprint 2020.
Series:Sather Classical Lectures ; 35
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • I. The Sophoclean Hero 1
  • II. The Sophoclean Hero 2
  • III. Antigone l
  • IV. Antigone 2
  • V. Philoctetes
  • VI. Oedipus at Colonus
  • NOTES TO I (Pp. 1-27)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MODERN BOOKS AND ARTICLES CITED
  • INDEX OF NAMES AND SELECTED TOPICS
  • INDEX OF GREEK WORDS DISCUSSED