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Greek Tragedy (Routledge Classics) Book

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-03-23 ??Pages: 344 Language: English Publisher: Routledge Two things give Kittos classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form. and he always wrote in lively and readable English. - Oliver Taplin. University of Oxford. UKWhy did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor Why did Euripides not make better plots So asks HDF Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy. available for the first time in Routledge Classics.Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectual questions. the Greek dramatist is above all an artist and the key to understanding classical Greek drama is to try and understand the tragic conception of each play. In Kitto's words' We shall ask what the dramatist is striving to say. not wh...Read More

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  • Foyles

    Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics.Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectual questions, the Greek dramatist is above all an artist and the key to understanding classical Greek drama is to try and understand the tragic conception of each play. In Kitto’s words ‘We shall ask what the dramatist is striving to say, not what in fact he does say about this or that.’ Through a brilliant analysis of Aeschylus’s ‘Oresteia’, the plays of Sophocles including ‘Antigone’ and ‘Oedipus Tyrannus’; and Euripides’s ‘Medea’ and ‘Hecuba’, Kitto skilfully conveys the enduring artistic and literary brilliance of the Greek dramatists.

  • Blackwell

    'Two things give Kitto's classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English.' - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford...

  • Pickabook

    H.D.F. Kitto, Edith Hall (Foreword)

  • 0415610192
  • 9780415610193
  • H.D.F. Kitto
  • 23 March 2011
  • Routledge
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 360
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