Guilt by descent
Subtitle: moral inheritance and decision making in Greek tragedy
By: N. J. Sewell-Rutter.
Series: Oxford classical monograph series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780199227334
Subjects: Guilt in literature; Blessing and cursing in literature; Decision making in literature; Greek literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-188) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preliminary studies : the supernatural and causation in Herodotus; title: Inherited guilt; title: Curses; title: Erinyes; title: Irruption and insight? : the intangible burden of the supernatural in Sophocles' Labdacid plays and Electra; title: Fate, freedom, decision making : Eteocles and others.