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Greek Tragedy
This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students, such as: * why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor? * why did Sophocles develop character drawing? * why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good? Greek Tragedy is neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism which all students of literature will find suggestive and stimulating.
Greek Tragedy
Neither a history nor a handbook, but a penetrating work of criticism, this classic text not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama, it also analyses the reasons for these changes.
Summary of Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto's The Greeks
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Greeks, who were the first to make this distinction, felt that they were different from any other people. They felt that they were not barbarians, but they were foreigners who did not speak Greek. #2 The Greeks were the first civilization to create a written law, and they were also the first to develop a sense of freedom. They were ruled by Law, which respected justice. The other civilizations of the East were ruled by absolute rulers who did not respect the rights of their subjects. #3 The Greeks developed a form of polity that satisfied the higher instincts and capabilities of man. Other forms of political society have been static, while the citystate was the means by which the Greek strove to make the life of the community and the individual more excellent. #4 I have tried to write about the Greeks as I know them, not as I imagine them to be. I have allowed myself the luxury of writing on points that interest me, instead of covering the whole field in a systematic and probably hurried manner.
The Greeks
Most ancient cultures disappeared with scarcely a trace, their effect upon our modern way of life of little consequence. The Greeks, however, continue to influence contemporary man through their drama, philosophy and art, their political cognizance and knowledge of science. There are many books introducing the Greek world to the modern reader, but this volume was recognized as a classic in the field upon its publication by Penguin Books. It now appears in a new paperback edition, with a new preface by the author and 32 pages of photographs selected especially for the American reader. The Greeks introduces us to the people who formed and founded a new and distinct way of life, the democratic ...
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra
Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his development of a central tragic figure, faced with a test of will and character, risking obloquy and death rather than compromise his or her principles: it is striking that Antigone and Electra both have a woman as their intransigent 'hero'. Antigone dies rather neg...
The Greeks
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Summary of Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto's The Greeks
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Greeks, who were the first to make this distinction, felt that they were different from any other people. They felt that they were not barbarians, but they were foreigners who did not speak Greek. #2 The Greeks were the first civilization to create a written law, and they were also the first to develop a sense of freedom. They were ruled by Law, which respected justice. The other civilizations of the East were ruled by absolute rulers who did not respect the rights of their subjects. #3 The Greeks developed a form of polity that satisfied the higher instincts and capabilities of man. Other forms of political society have been static, while the city-state was the means by which the Greek strove to make the life of the community and the individual more excellent. #4 I have tried to write about the Greeks as I know them, not as I imagine them to be. I have allowed myself the luxury of writing on points that interest me, instead of covering the whole field in a systematic and probably hurried manner.
Poiesis
Attacks the critical practice of interpreting ancient Greek literature in terms of modern ideas, using the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Pindar, Plato, Thucydides and Shakespeare as examples.
