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... tragedy was not generally followed . Sophoclean drama prevailed , since Euripides , under protest , framed tragedy in accordance with Sophocles , not Aeschylus . Sophocles turned tragedy in- ward upon the principal actors , and drama ...
... tragedy was not generally followed . Sophoclean drama prevailed , since Euripides , under protest , framed tragedy in accordance with Sophocles , not Aeschylus . Sophocles turned tragedy in- ward upon the principal actors , and drama ...
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... Tragedy , THE MOST IMPORTANT modern critical study of the subject . The intensive study of Greek tragedy involves so much philological , religious , and historical erudition that it is perhaps no surprise that there are so few studies ...
... Tragedy , THE MOST IMPORTANT modern critical study of the subject . The intensive study of Greek tragedy involves so much philological , religious , and historical erudition that it is perhaps no surprise that there are so few studies ...
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... tragedy may excite one only of the two emotions generally called tragic . But the full tragic effect requires the union of the two , nor can the distinctive function of tragedy as katharsis be discharged otherwise . In the phrase of the ...
... tragedy may excite one only of the two emotions generally called tragic . But the full tragic effect requires the union of the two , nor can the distinctive function of tragedy as katharsis be discharged otherwise . In the phrase of the ...
Contents
HOMER The Iliad or The Poem of Force | 3 |
HOMER Odysseus Scar | 30 |
AESCHYLUS Introduction to the Oresteia | 51 |
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