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Euripides and the Sophists

Book information

Publisher
Duckworth
Year
1998
ISBN
9781472539724, 9780715628164
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8785068 bytes)
Series
BCPaperbacks
Pages
\122
Library
bloomsburycollections.com
Time added
2023-06-30 21:29:27

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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