Scenes from Greek Drama / Bruno Snell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snell, Bruno, 1896-1986, author.

Series:

Sather classical lectures ; Volume 34.

Sather Classical Lectures ; Volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1964]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

I. Shame and Guilt: Aeschylus' Achilles

II. Passion and Reason: Phaedra in Hippolytos I

III. Passion and Reason: Medea and Phaedra in Hippolytos II

IV. Vita Activa and Vita Contemplativa in Euripides' Antiope

V. A Unique Satyr Drama, Python's Agen: Structure and Dating

VI. Python's Agen: Sources, Political Slant

Appendix: The Florence Papyrus of Aeschylus' Myrmidons

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520319080

0520319087

OCLC:

1149439359