Ritual Irony Poetry and Sacrifice in Euripides

Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae. Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1985
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