Language and the tragic hero
Subtitle: essays on Greek tragedy in honor of Gordon M. Kirkwood
By: edited by Pietro Pucci.
Contributors: Kirkwood, Gordon MacDonald, 1916-; Pucci, Pietro.
Series: Scholars Press homage series
Publisher: Scholars Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Atlanta, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Kirkwood, Gordon MacDonald, 1916-; Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.; Mythology, Greek, in literature.; Heroes in literature.
Notes: "Bibliography of Gordon M. Kirkwood": p. [ix]-xv.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Artemis and the sacrifice of Iphigeneia in Aeschylus' Agamemnon / Kevin Clinton; title: Agamemnon in doubt and hesitation / Jacqueline de Romilly; title: Potmos from Homer to Euripides / Douglas E. Gerber; title: Socrates and the tragic hero / T.H. Irwin; title: Medea nunc sum; title: the close of Seneca's version / W.R. Johnson; title: Xerxes' entrance; title: irony, myth, and history in the Persians / Phillip Mitsis - Socrates Deinos legein / Helen F. North; title: Reading the riddles of Oedipus Rex / Pietro Pucci; title: Two questions on Sophocles' Philoctetes / Michael C. Stokes; title: The poetry of Tongue and Phrên in the Frogs / Leonard Woodbury.