Christoper Pelling (ed.)

Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature

Herausgeber: Pelling, Christoper

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of commentaries by contributors such as Pelling, C.J. Gill, P.E. Easterling, F.S. Halliwell, D.A.F.M. Russell, S. Godhill, L. Coventry, M.S. Silk, O.P. Taplin, and J. Griffin examines a range of topics including childhood and personality in Greek biography, the construction of character in Greek tragedy, ethos as rhetorical theory, characterization in Plato's dialogues, the people of Aristophanes, the role of Agamemnon in the Iliad, and characterization in Euripides.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780198140580
• ISBN-10: 0198140584
• Artikelnr.: 21432978

Inhaltsangabe

Christopher Gill: The character-personality distinction
Stephen Halliwell: Traditional Greek conceptions of character
Oliver Taplin: Agamemnon's role in the Iliad
P. E. Easterling: Constructing character in Greek tragedy
Simon Goldhill: Character and action, representation and reading: Greek tragedy and its critics
Jasper Griffin: Characterization in Euripides: Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis
Michael Silk: The people of Aristophanes
Lucinda Coventry: The role of interlocutor in Plato's dialogues: Theory and practice
D. A. F. M. Russell: Ethos in oratory and rhetoric
C. B. R. Pelling: Childhood and personality in Greek biography
C. B. R. Pelling: Conclusion