Cheirons Way C

by Justina Gregory

This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic and tragedy, early education figures significantly in that past. Cheiron's Way takes as its point of departure the words of Homer's Phoenix to Achilles, who claims, "I made you the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190857889
• ISBN13: 9780190857882
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"