Justina Gregory

Cheirons Way C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful characters in Greek epic and tragedy. It investigates Cheiron the Centaur, ancient Greece's first teacher; traces the influential trajectory of the Iliadic Achilles; and offers readings of the Odyssey, Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes, and Euripides' Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 158mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9780190857882
• ISBN-10: 0190857889
• Artikelnr.: 54375083

Autorenporträt

Sophia Smith Professor Emerita of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College, Justina Gregory is the author of Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians (University of Michigan Press) and Euripides' Hecuba: Introduction, Text, and Commentary (Scholars Press). She has also edited A Companion to Greek Tragedy (Blackwell) and published numerous articles on Euripides and Greek tragedy.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One: Cheiron the Centaur
Chapter Two: Iliad, Part 1
Chapter Three: Iliad, Part 2
Chapter Four: Odyssey
Chapter Five: Ajax
Chapter Six: Philoctetes
Chapter Seven: Hippolytus
Chapter Eight: Iphigenia in Aulis
Coda
Works cited
General index
Index locorum