N. J. Sewell-Rutter

Guilt by Descent

Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 411g
• ISBN-13: 9780199227334
• ISBN-10: 0199227330
• Artikelnr.: 24471928

Autorenporträt

N. J. Sewell-Rutter was previously Lecturer in Greek, Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

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