Guilt by descent : moral inheritance and decision making in Greek tragedy / N. J. Sewell-Rutter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sewell-Rutter, N. J. (Neil James), 1976-

Series:

Oxford classical monographs.

Oxford classical monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guilt in literature.

Blessing and cursing in literature.

Decision making in literature.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the provoking and exciting of emotion, neither of which can be ignored if the texts are to be fully understood. He pays particular attention to Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes andthe Phoenician Women of Euripides, both of which dramatize the sorrows of the later generations of the House of Oedipus, but

Contents:

Preliminary studies : the supernatural and causation in Herodotus

Inherited guilt

Curses

Erinyes

Irruption and insight? : the intangible burden of the supernatural in Sophocles' Labdacid plays and Electra

Fate, freedom, decision making : Eteocles and others.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-959133-4

1-281-15005-3

9786611150051

0-19-152777-7

1-4356-3112-9

OCLC:

620187941