Change of Mind in Greek TragedyVandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995 - 286 pages |
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Page 95
... nature , " are permitted to go there ; to them Hippolytus opposes the bad , oi καкoí ( 78-81 ) . For himself , he prays to reach the end of life just as he has begun it ( 87 ) , as a devotee of Artemis . Phaedra , who finds his ...
... nature , " are permitted to go there ; to them Hippolytus opposes the bad , oi καкoí ( 78-81 ) . For himself , he prays to reach the end of life just as he has begun it ( 87 ) , as a devotee of Artemis . Phaedra , who finds his ...
Page 96
... nature itself , and she fails . Her direct confrontation is not with Hippolytus , but with the Nurse , who represents yet another rival theory . For a time , indeed , the Nurse philosophizes more than she instigates.90 But the end of ...
... nature itself , and she fails . Her direct confrontation is not with Hippolytus , but with the Nurse , who represents yet another rival theory . For a time , indeed , the Nurse philosophizes more than she instigates.90 But the end of ...
Page 256
... nature he should never have abandoned . Already with his first production , Euripides creates a completely different atmosphere . Admetus " changes his mind in spectacular fashion " ( 237 ) . But Alcestis may be different because it is ...
... nature he should never have abandoned . Already with his first production , Euripides creates a completely different atmosphere . Admetus " changes his mind in spectacular fashion " ( 237 ) . But Alcestis may be different because it is ...
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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