Greek tragedy and political theory / [edited by] J. Peter Euben.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Euben, J. Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Politics in literature.

Literature and society--Greece.

Literature and society.

Greece.

Physical Description:

xvii, 315 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1986.

Contents:

Introduction

Greek tragedy and society / Charles Segal

Polis and monarch in early Attic tragedy / Anthony Podlecki

Thebes : theater of self and society in Athenian drama / From a Zeitlin

Politics and madness / Michael Davis

This politics of Antigone / Warren J. and Ann M. Lane

Human action and political action in the Oedipus tyrannos / Joel Schwartz

Oedipus at Colonus / Laura Slatkin

Political corruption in Euripides' Orestes / J. Peter Euben

Myths and the origins of cities : reflections on the autochthony theme in Euripides' Ion / Arlene Saxonhouse

Tragedy and the education of the Demos : Aristotle's response to Plato / Stephen G. Salkever.

ISBN:

0520055721

0520055845

OCLC:

12808701