'Two things give Kitto's classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English.' - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford, UK Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics. Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectual questions, the Greek dramatist is above all an artist and the key to understanding classical Greek drama is to try and understand the tragic conception of each play. In Kitto's words 'We shall ask what the dramatist is striving to say, not what in fact he does say about this or that.' Through a brilliant analysis of Aeschylus's 'Oresteia', the plays of Sophocles including 'Antigone' and 'Oedipus Tyrannus'; and Euripides's 'Medea' and 'Hecuba', Kitto skilfully conveys the enduring artistic and literary brilliance of the Greek dramatists. H.D.F Kitto (1897 -- 1982) was a renowned British classical scholar. He lectured at the University of Glasgow from 1920-1944 before becoming Professor of Greek at Bristol University, where he taught until 1962.
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Publisher
Taylor & Francis LTD
ISBN-13
9780415610193
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99765121
Product Key Features
Book Title
Greek Tragedy
Author
H.D.F. Kitto
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm
Item Weight
476g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
H.D.F. Kitto
Series Title
Routledge Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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