Change of Mind in Greek TragedyVandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995 - 286 pages |
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Page 137
... Heracles ' arrival , so that character focus as a whole is diminished . No character who seeks refuge at an altar is slaughtered in Greek tragedy , and the villain Lycus does not deserve to succeed even at committing such a crime.63 ...
... Heracles ' arrival , so that character focus as a whole is diminished . No character who seeks refuge at an altar is slaughtered in Greek tragedy , and the villain Lycus does not deserve to succeed even at committing such a crime.63 ...
Page 139
... Heracles and Theseus on the meaning of the motive . Theseus alone could open Euripides to the complaint sometimes made that Heracles ' decision to live somehow portrays a shallow optimism when compared with the death of Ajax . His ...
... Heracles and Theseus on the meaning of the motive . Theseus alone could open Euripides to the complaint sometimes made that Heracles ' decision to live somehow portrays a shallow optimism when compared with the death of Ajax . His ...
Page 141
... Heracles ' career as it is presented in this play . In one way , of course , labors may be multiplied endlessly for Heracles ; 70 many of his ad hoc adventures are in fact doublets of the struggle with death ( most transparently in ...
... Heracles ' career as it is presented in this play . In one way , of course , labors may be multiplied endlessly for Heracles ; 70 many of his ad hoc adventures are in fact doublets of the struggle with death ( most transparently in ...
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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