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Sophocles : a study of heroic humanism
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- Creator
- Cedric H. Whitman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1951
- Physical Details
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- 292 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674821408, 9780674821408
- OCLC
- ocm00310311, ocm00310311
- ACLS e-books permit unlimited multi-user access.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285) and index.
- Also issued online.
- pt. 1. The enigma of Sophocles. The classic view ; Scholarship and Hamartia ; Chronology -- pt. 2. Tragic Arete. The matrix of heroism : Ajax ; Man the measure : Antigone -- pt. 3. Tragic knowledge. Late learning : Trachiniae ; Irrational evil : Oedipus Rex -- pt. 4. Tragic endurance. Trial by time : Electra ; The paradox of will : Philoctetes ; Apocalypse : Oedipus at Colonus -- pt. 5. The heroic world. Sophocles and the fifth century ; The metaphysic of humanism