Change of Mind in Greek TragedyVandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995 - 286 pages |
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Page 112
... hero's quest for a properly heroic course of both action and reflection . Ajax begins with a hero who does not seem to be getting what he deserves for his prowess ; so too Heracles . Heracles ' career suffers a positive as well as a ...
... hero's quest for a properly heroic course of both action and reflection . Ajax begins with a hero who does not seem to be getting what he deserves for his prowess ; so too Heracles . Heracles ' career suffers a positive as well as a ...
Page 257
... Hero " from family , community , and finally the gods themselves . He argues that the power of these stubborn heroes to move us lies mainly in the fact that as humans they all face death.1 Searching for this type in earlier Greek ...
... Hero " from family , community , and finally the gods themselves . He argues that the power of these stubborn heroes to move us lies mainly in the fact that as humans they all face death.1 Searching for this type in earlier Greek ...
Page 260
... Hero who plays the role of her own dissuader , and Iphigenia , a character whose situation is " paradoxical " because she is not a Sophoclean Hero . Like his study of the appeals addressed to the Sophoclean Hero , Knox ' brief ...
... Hero who plays the role of her own dissuader , and Iphigenia , a character whose situation is " paradoxical " because she is not a Sophoclean Hero . Like his study of the appeals addressed to the Sophoclean Hero , Knox ' brief ...
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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