An accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy provides background information; helps readers appreciate, enjoy and engage with the plays themselves; and gives them an idea of the important questions in current scholarship on tragedy.
An accessible introduction for students and anyone interested in increasing their enjoyment of Greek tragic plays. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy provides background information; helps readers appreciate, enjoy and engage with the plays themselves; and gives them an idea of the important questions in current scholarship on tragedy.
Ruth Scodel is currently D. R. Shackleton Bailey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. Her most recent books are Epic Facework: Self-Presentation and Social Interaction in Homer (2008) and Whither Quo Vadis? Sienkiewicz's Novel in Film and Television (2008). She is also the author of numerous articles on Greek literature.
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1. Defining tragedy; 2. Approaches; 3. Origin, festival, and competition; 4. Historical and intellectual background; 5. Persians; 6. The Oresteia; 7. Antigone; 8. Medea; 9. Hippolytus; 10. Oedipus the King; 11. Helen; 12. Orestes; 13. Comparing the tragedians; 14. The inheritance of Greek tragedy.