The eating of the gods
Subtitle: an interpretation of Greek tragedy.
By: Translated by Boleslaw Taborski and Edward J. Czerwinski.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism; Religious drama, Greek -- History and criticism; Mythology, Greek, in literature; Gods, Greek, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The vertical axis, or the ambiguities of Prometheus -- Ajax thrice deceived, or the heroism of the absurd -- The veiled Alcestis -- “But where now is famous Heracles?”. The faces of Heracles -- Black Sophocles, or the circulation of poisons -- “Oh to be a stone!” -- Philoctetes, or the refusal -- The eating of the gods, or the Bacchae -- Appendices. Medea at Pescara -- Orestes, Electra, Hamlet -- Lucian in Cymbeline.