Guilt by Descent : Moral Inheritance and Decision Making in Greek Tragedy.

Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the...

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Main Author:	Sewell-Rutter, N. J. (Neil James), 1976-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2007.
Series:	Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:	Blessing and cursing in literature. Decision making in literature. Greek literature > History and criticism. Guilt in literature. Literature. Literature Bénédiction et malédiction dans la littérature. Prise de décision dans la littérature. Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique. Culpabilité dans la littérature. Littérature. Blessing and cursing in literature Decision making in literature Greek literature Guilt in literature Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Summary:	Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the provoking and exciting of emotion, neither of which can be ignored if the texts are to be fully understood. He pays particular attention to Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes andthe Phoenician Women of Euripides, both of which dramatize the sorrows of the later generations of the House of Oedipus, but.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (217 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780191527777 0191527777 9780199227334 0199227330