Change of Mind in Greek TragedyVandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995 - 286 pages |
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... Achilles , brings us to Achilles ' plans and choices , if they are rightly so described . Knox saw in the Iliadic Achilles the prototype of the Sophoclean “ heroic temper , " and it may indeed be that a " pejorative metaphor " marks the ...
... Achilles , brings us to Achilles ' plans and choices , if they are rightly so described . Knox saw in the Iliadic Achilles the prototype of the Sophoclean “ heroic temper , " and it may indeed be that a " pejorative metaphor " marks the ...
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... Achilles and Clytemnestra , in which Achilles also resolved on a point of honor to oppose the sacrifice ) . Agamemnon falls silent , allowing Clytemnestra and then Iphigenia herself to make long appeals to him . When they are finished ...
... Achilles and Clytemnestra , in which Achilles also resolved on a point of honor to oppose the sacrifice ) . Agamemnon falls silent , allowing Clytemnestra and then Iphigenia herself to make long appeals to him . When they are finished ...
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... Achilles pledges to defend Iphigenia on a point of honor . As the motive of love , which Euripides has Achilles explicitly reject ( not that that alone means we have to believe him ) , lay so close to hand , I imagine Euripides ...
... Achilles pledges to defend Iphigenia on a point of honor . As the motive of love , which Euripides has Achilles explicitly reject ( not that that alone means we have to believe him ) , lay so close to hand , I imagine Euripides ...
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Achilles action Admetus Aeschylus Agamemnon Ajax Alcestis Antigone Apollo argument Aristotelian Aristotle Athenian Athens audience avoid believe Blundell Burnett change of mind chapter character characterization chorus Clytemnestra conflict context Creon Creusa criticism death deception decision Deianeira Dionysus discussion divine dramatic earlier Electra Erinyes Euripidean Euripides example fact father finally focus Funke further Greek tragedy Hecuba Helen Heracles heroic temper Hippolytus intentions interpretation intrigue Ion's Iphigenia in Aulis issue Knox later Lesky lines marriage meaning Medea Menelaus metaphor monody moral motif motivation move Neoptolemus occur Odysseus Oedipus Orestes passage patterns persuasion Phaedra Philoctetes play play's plot possible prologue psychological question reluctance remains response reveal reversal rhetorical sacrifice says scene secret seems situation Sophoclean Hero Sophocles speak speech stage stasimon suggest suicide Taplin technique Tecmessa thematic theme Theseus Tiresias tradition tragic words Xuthus Yunis Zeus γὰρ δὲ καὶ κακῶν τὸ