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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN-100292740867
ISBN-139780292740860
eBay Product ID (ePID)117303826
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Book TitleCompanion to Greek Tragedy
Number of Pages636 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1972
TopicEuropean / General, Ancient & Classical
GenreLiterary Criticism, Drama
AuthorJohn Ferguson
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Dewey Edition18
TitleLeadingA
Dewey Decimal882/.01/09
Table Of ContentPreface I. Background 1. Origins 2. The Audience and the Theater II. The Tragedies of Aeschylus 3. Aeschylus 4. The Men of Persia 5. Seven against Thebes 6. The Suppliant Women 7. Agamemnon 8. The Libation Bearers 9. The Kindly Goddesses 10. Prometheus Bound III. The Tragedies of Sophocles 11. Sophocles 12. Ajax 13. The Women of Trachis 14. Antigone 15. King Oedipus 16. Philoctetes 17. Oedipus at Colonus IV. The Tragedies of Euripides 18. Euripides 19. Medea 20. Heracles's Children 21. Hippolytus 22. Hecabe 23. The Suppliant Women 24. Andromache 25. The Women of Troy 26. Ion 27. Heracles 28. Electra 29. Iphigeneia among the Taurians 30. Helen 31. The Women of Phoenicia 32. Iphigeneia at Aulis 33. The Bacchants V. An Anonymous Tragedy 34. Rhesus VI. Satyric And Pro-Satyric Plays 35. The Satyr Play 36. Sophocles: The Trackers 37. Euripides: Alcestis 38. Euripides: The Cyclops 39. Sophocles: Electra 40. Euripides: Orestes Greek Vocabulary Bibliography Index
SynopsisThis handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays. John Ferguson places each play in its historical, political, and social context--important for both Athenian and modern audiences--and he displays a keen, discriminating critical competence in dealing with the plays as literature. Ferguson is sensitive to the meter and sound of Greek tragedy, and, with remarkable success, he manages to involve even the Greekless reader in an actual encounter with the Greek as poetry. He examines language and metrics in relation to each tragedian's dramatic purpose, thus elucidating the crucial dimension of technique that other handbooks, mostly the work of philologists, renounce in order to concentrate on structure and plot. The result is perceptive criticism in which the quality of Ferguson's scholarship vouches for what he sees in the plays. The book is prefaced with a general introduction to ancient Greek theatrical production, and there is a brief biographical sketch of each tragedian. Footnotes are avoided: the object of this handbook is to introduce readers to the plays as dramatic poetry, not to detail who said what about them. There is an extensive bibliography for scholars and a glossary of Greek words to assist the student with the operative moral and stylistic terms of Greek tragedy., This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays., This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays. John Ferguson places each play in its historical, political, and social context-important for both Athenian and modern audiences-and he displays a keen, discriminating critical competence in dealing with the plays as literature. Ferguson is sensitive to the meter and sound of Greek tragedy, and, with remarkable success, he manages to involve even the Greekless reader in an actual encounter with the Greek as poetry. He examines language and metrics in relation to each tragedian's dramatic purpose, thus elucidating the crucial dimension of technique that other handbooks, mostly the work of philologists, renounce in order to concentrate on structure and plot. The result is perceptive criticism in which the quality of Ferguson's scholarship vouches for what he sees in the plays. The book is prefaced with a general introduction to ancient Greek theatrical production, and there is a brief biographical sketch of each tragedian. Footnotes are avoided: the object of this handbook is to introduce readers to the plays as dramatic poetry, not to detail who said what about them. There is an extensive bibliography for scholars and a glossary of Greek words to assist the student with the operative moral and stylistic terms of Greek tragedy.
