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Murder Among Friends: Violation of Philia in Greek Tragedy Book

Murder Among Friends : Hardback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195131499 : 0195131495 : 24 Feb 2000 : This book argues that Greek tragedy as a genre is characterized by plots centering on kin killing. It contains a detailed analysis of five plays, and comprehensive documentation of this plot pattern in all of the extant tragedies, and in the lost plays of the fifth and fourth centuries BC.Read More

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    Philia describes the relationship of one individual to another: the bonds of affection, duty, or trust that exist between brother and sister or between warriors in battle. To the ancient Greeks, to violate teh philia bond was to commit an offense against the gods, and to such an offense, an entire community or even race is answerable. Belfiore looks at five major plays by Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles to offer a meticulous examination of the philia factor, not only in its literary relation to tragic acts of hubris, but as a window into the sociocultural mores of the era.

  • 0195131495
  • 9780195131499
  • Elizabeth S. Belfiore
  • 24 February 2000
  • OUP USA
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 304
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