Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature

by Christoper Pelling

Overview

This collection of commentaries by contributors such as Pelling, C.J. Gill, P.E. Easterling, F.S. Halliwell, D.A.F.M. Russell, S. Godhill, L. Coventry, M.S. Silk, O.P. Taplin, and J. Griffin examines a range of topics including childhood and personality in Greek biography, the construction of character in Greek tragedy, ethos as rhetorical theory, characterization in Plato's dialogues, the people of Aristophanes, the role of Agamemnon in the Iliad, and characterization in Euripides.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198140580
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/08/1990
Edition description:	Reprinted
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.63(w) x 8.81(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

University College, Oxford

Editorial Reviews

"A splendid collection of papers."—The Times (London)

"The authors, employing a variety of critical approaches, combine theoretical statements with analysis of specific passages. The result is rich and stimulating....A rewarding experience, not least for the open-endedness of its essays, which invite us as readers to reconceive our approach to the figures of Greek literature, and to the works in which they appear."—Journal of the International Plutarch Society

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