Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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Page 87
... Aeschylus excuses the absence of Orestes from Agamemnon by having Clytemnestra excuse it to Agamemnon ( 877-86 ) , explaining that he is being cared for by Strophius in case of revolution following Agamemnon's defeat or death at Troy ...
... Aeschylus excuses the absence of Orestes from Agamemnon by having Clytemnestra excuse it to Agamemnon ( 877-86 ) , explaining that he is being cared for by Strophius in case of revolution following Agamemnon's defeat or death at Troy ...
Page 88
... Aeschylus ' Aegisthus is apparently not far away , and his absence is so casual that Electra can credibly not anticipate it ( since it is an important surprise ) . Sophocles ' chorus , however , seeks considerable reassurance that he is ...
... Aeschylus ' Aegisthus is apparently not far away , and his absence is so casual that Electra can credibly not anticipate it ( since it is an important surprise ) . Sophocles ' chorus , however , seeks considerable reassurance that he is ...
Page 177
... Aeschylus is likely to be literary too ; he could hardly have written a book based on occa- sional revivals . Neither of these comments is a negative criticism or a problem , but they demonstrate that Aeschylus was a suitable subject in ...
... Aeschylus is likely to be literary too ; he could hardly have written a book based on occa- sional revivals . Neither of these comments is a negative criticism or a problem , but they demonstrate that Aeschylus was a suitable subject in ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
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