Tragic Rhetoric: Sophocles and the Politics of Good Sense

This dissertation investigates rhetoric and prudence in Sophocles through close readings of Antigone, Ajax, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus. Central to the project is a reconstruc-tion of a uniquely Sophoclean conception of prudence as “good sense”; good sense is distinguished from traditional c...

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Main Author: Atkison, Larissa
Other Authors: Balot, Ryan
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43520

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