Greek Tragedy and the Historian
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0198149875
ISBN-13
9780198149873
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Clarendon Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 27th, 1997
Print length
280 Pages
Weight
598 grams
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16.00 x 23.50 x 2.70 cms
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Tragedy was central to the experience of being a Athenian citizen and should be the richest of all sources for illuminating fifth-century society and thought, yet it is particularly difficult for a historian to use. This collection of eleven essays investigates the methods and pitfalls of using tragedy to illuminate history.
The tragic theme was no mere diversion for a fifth-century Athenian: it was a focal part of the experience of being a citizen. Tragedy explores fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central source for the reconstruction and analysis of the Athenian thought-world. Yet is is also a peculiarly delicate source to use, and the combination of tragic with other material often poses particular problems to the historian. This collection of eleven papers investigates the methods and pitfalls of using tragedy to illuminate fifth-century thought, culture, and society. In the concluding essay Christopher Pelling summarizes two important themes of the book: the problems of using tragedy as evidence; and the light tragedy can shed on civic ideology.
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