Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics - Couverture rigide

Blundell, Mary Whitlock

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521351162 ISBN 13 : 9780521351164

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1989

Synopsis

This book is a detailed study of five plays of Sophocles that examines a key ethical principle.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is a detailed study of the plays of Sophocles through examination of a single ethical principle. Sophocles has traditionally been considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians, but Professor Whitlock Blundell offers an important new examination of the ethical content of the plays by focusing primarily on the traditional Greek popular moral code of 'helping friends and harming enemies'. Five of the extant plays are discussed in detail both from a dramatic and an ethical standpoint, and the author concludes that ethical themes are not only integral to each drama, but are subjected to an implicit critique through the tragical consequences to which they give rise. Greek scholars and students of Greek drama and Greek thought will welcome this book, which is presented in such a way as to be accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike. No knowledge of Greek is required.

Revue de presse

'... all who take Sophocles seriously will have to take this book on board.' Oliver Taplin, The Times Literary Supplement

'... this book will ... have its well-deserved place among the important studies on the poet.' Mnemosyne

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521351162
• ISBN 13: 9780521351164
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible