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Tragic Papyri Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou

Tragic Papyri By Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou

Tragic Papyri by Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou


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Tragic Papyri: Aeschylus' Theoroi, Hypsipyle, Laios, Prometheus Pyrkaeus and Sophocles' Inachos by Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou

With concern to Greek literature and particularly to 5th c. BCE tragic production, papyri provide us usually with not only the most ancient attestation but also the most reliable one. Much more so when the papyri are the only or the main witnesses of the tragic plays. The misfortune is that the papyri transmit texts incomplete, fragmentary, and almost always anonymous. It is the scholars task to read, supplement, interpret and identify the particular texts. In this book, five Greek plays that survived fragmentarily in papyri are published, four by Aeschylus and one by Sophocles. Three of them are satyr plays: Aeschylus Theoroi, Hypsipyle, and Prometheus Pyrkaeus; Sophocles Inachos belongs to the genre we use to call prosatyric; Aeschylus Laios is a typical tragedy. The authors scope was, after each texts identification was secured as regards the poet and the plays title, to proceed to textual and interpretative observations that contributed to reconstructing in whole or in part the storyline of the relevant plays. These observations often led to unexpected conclusions and an overthrow of established opinions. Thus, the book will appeal to classical scholars, especially those interested in theatrical studies.

About Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou

Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

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NPB9783110796483
9783110796483
3110796481
Tragic Papyri: Aeschylus' Theoroi, Hypsipyle, Laios, Prometheus Pyrkaeus and Sophocles' Inachos by Kyriakos Tsantsanoglou
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Hardback
De Gruyter
2022-08-01
343
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