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Product Description: How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together...read more
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9780691166506 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama?
Product Description: This volume explores the conceptual terrain defined by the Greek word eikos: the probable, likely, or reasonable. A term of art in Greek rhetoric, a defining feature of literary fiction, a seminal mode of historical, scientific, and philosophical inquiry, eikos was a way of thinking about the probable and improbable, the factual and counterfactual, the hypothetical and the real...read more
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9781107050495 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2014, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: This volume explores the conceptual terrain defined by the Greek word eikos: the probable, likely, or reasonable.
Product Description: Recent literary-critical work in legal studies reads law as a genre of literature, noting that Western law originated as a branch of rhetoric in classical Greece and lamenting the fact that the law has lost its connection to poetic language, narrative, and imagination...read more
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9780521110747 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 8, 2010), cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Recent literary-critical work in legal studies reads law as a genre of literature, noting that Western law originated as a branch of rhetoric in classical Greece and lamenting the fact that the law has lost its connection to poetic language, narrative, and imagination.
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9780691095226 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 25, 2002, cover price $87.00
Product Description: Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedyâand almost always with catastrophic results. Instead of cementing bonds between men, such exchanges rend them. They allow women, who should be silent objects, to become monstrous subjects, while men often end up as lifeless corpses...read more
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9780292791138 | Univ of Texas Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Wohl offers an illuminating analysis of the exchange of women in Sophocles' "Trachiniae", Aeschylus' "Agamemnon", and Euripides' "Alcestis".
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9780292791145 | Univ of Texas Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Exchanges of women between men occur regularly in Greek tragedyâand almost always with catastrophic results.
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