Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy

by Jonah Radding

Most critics agree that Euripidean tragedy addresses a wealth of political questions, and that it successfully incorporates and engages with a variety of ancient Greek poetic traditions. Nevertheless, these topics and questions have generally been treated separately. In this book, Jonah Radding contends that the political issues addressed in Euripides' tragedies are inextricably related to his employment of choral lyric genres such as paean and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674278534
• ISBN13: 9780674278530
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"