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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date
February 1, 1983
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780521241809
ISBN-10
0521241804
Availability§
Out of Print
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$54.95
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: One of the difficulties in appreciating the literature of a foreign culture, and even more that of an ancient one, is to be sensitive to the overtones that certain concepts held for the original audience. A distinctive feature of Greek culture was an awareness of the power of words, and an interest in the interrelationships between persuasion (peitho), deception and violence. These issues figured with some prominence in Greek plays. Dr Buxton maintains that certain aspects of classical tragedy become clearer if we recognise what peitho meant to the Greeks. In the first part of his book, he attempts to 'excavate' the concept of peitho, uncovering its various associations in different areas of experience - politics, rhetoric, love, morality and philosophy. Armed with what he has discovered, he turns in the second part to an analysis of selected plays by Aischylos, Sophokles and Euripides in which persuasion plays a major role.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Cambridge Univ Pr (February 1, 1983)
9780521241809 | details & prices | List price $54.95
About: One of the difficulties in appreciating the literature of a foreign culture, and even more that of an ancient one, is to be sensitive to the overtones that certain concepts held for the original audience.
About: One of the difficulties in appreciating the literature of a foreign culture, and even more that of an ancient one, is to be sensitive to the overtones that certain concepts held for the original audience.
Paperback
from Cambridge Univ Pr (February 25, 2010)
9780521136730 | details & prices | 247 pages | 5.50 × 8.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $44.99
About: One of the difficulties in appreciating the literature of a foreign culture, and even more that of an ancient one, is to be sensitive to the overtones that certain concepts held for the original audience.
About: One of the difficulties in appreciating the literature of a foreign culture, and even more that of an ancient one, is to be sensitive to the overtones that certain concepts held for the original audience.
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