Guilt by descent: moral inheritance and decision making in greek tragedy
Sewell-Rutter, N. J.
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Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives the familiar issues of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation a fresh appraisal, with particular reference to Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and the Phoenician Women of Euripides. All Greek quotations are translated. INDICE: Introduction; 1: Preliminary studies: the supernatural and causation in Herodotus; 2: Inherited guilt; 3: Curses; 4: Erinyes; 5: Irruption and insight? The intangible burden of the supernatural in Sophocles' Labdacid plays and 'Electra'; 6: Fate, freedom, decision making: Eteocles and others; Conclusion
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959133-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha Publicación: 29/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés