Cheiron's way : youthful education in Homer and tragedy / Justina Gregory.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gregory, Justina, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Characters.

Homer.

Education in literature.

Centaurs in literature.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 313 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This work studies the social and ethical formation of youthful characters in Greek epic and tragedy. It investigates Cheiron the centaur, ancient Greece's first teacher; traces the influential trajectory of the Iliadic Achilles; and offers readings of the Odyssey, Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes, and Euripides' Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis.

Contents:

Dedication

Plates

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Cheiron the Centaur

2 Iliad, Part 1

3 Iliad, Part 24 Odyssey

5 Ajax

6 Philoctetes

7 Hippolytus

8 Iphigenia in Aulis Coda

Works Cited

Subject Index

Index Locorum

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

ISBN:

0-19-085790-0

0-19-085791-9

0-19-085789-7