Cheiron's Way
Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy
This book studies the social and ethical formation of youthful figures in Homer, Sophocles, and Euripides. Every fictional character comes with a past attached, a presumed personal history that is both implicit and explicit; for the youthful heroes and heroines of epic and tragedy, early education figures significantly in that past. Cheiron's Way takes as its point of departure the words of Homer's Phoenix to Achilles, who claims, I made you the man you are as he pleads with his former pupil to let go of his anger.The book begins by exploring topics relevant to heroic and tragic education: age classes, rites of passage, verbal modes of instru…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-085789-9
- EAN: 9780190857899
- Produktnummer: 29378628
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'228 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 halftones, 8 page insert
Über den Autor
Sophia Smith Professor Emerita of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College, Justina Gregory is the author of Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians (University of Michigan Press) and Euripides' Hecuba: Introduction, Text, and Commentary (Scholars Press). She has also edited A Companion to Greek Tragedy (Blackwell) and published numerous articles on Euripides and Greek tragedy.
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