Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... Sophocles works similarly , taking pains to have Heracles , as soon as he realizes he is about to die , use four ... Sophocles apparently does not want anyone to wonder why they are not present . In the manner most associated with ...
... Sophocles works similarly , taking pains to have Heracles , as soon as he realizes he is about to die , use four ... Sophocles apparently does not want anyone to wonder why they are not present . In the manner most associated with ...
Page 97
... Sophocles in Electra has Aegisthus come to the palace because he has heard about the alleged messengers from unspecified gossip ( 1443-44 ) . Probably Sophocles avoids having Clytemnestra send a messenger be- cause the audience needs to ...
... Sophocles in Electra has Aegisthus come to the palace because he has heard about the alleged messengers from unspecified gossip ( 1443-44 ) . Probably Sophocles avoids having Clytemnestra send a messenger be- cause the audience needs to ...
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... Sophocles does not : why Aegisthus , who is after all not un- willing to murder people ( he is said to have tried to kill Orestes at the time he killed Agamemnon , 16–18 ) , does not simply kill Electra . He also , given the intense ...
... Sophocles does not : why Aegisthus , who is after all not un- willing to murder people ( he is said to have tried to kill Orestes at the time he killed Agamemnon , 16–18 ) , does not simply kill Electra . He also , given the intense ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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