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Euripides and the Sophists

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
1998
ISBN
071562816X, 9780715628164
Google Books ID
3NdfAAAAMAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1792043 bytes)
Pages
128\127
Time added
2024-06-29 08:03:55

Description

This work describes how Euripides provides, in specific plays, a variety of original treatments of well-known views of his contemporaries, the Sophists. The emphasis is on Euripides as the creative virtuoso of dramatic ideas rather than as a philosopher. Euripides' adaptation covers a range of dramatic styles and approaches, from the tragic treatment of the nature in "Hippolytus", to the near parody of Sophistic views on sense-perception in "Helen".

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