Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. A Literary Commentary. - CONACHER, D.J.,
A Literary Commentary
KORTE INHOUD
?It may at once be said that Chonacher?s book should be extremely profitable to any serious student of the ?Prometheus?, at any level. He is unwarrantably modest in speaking of it as an ?introductory study? (X). What he presents is an evenhanded, almost Solonian, survey both of the primary evidence and of recent academic opinions about that evidence neither dictating solutions to the reader nor prejudicing him by allowing any rancour intro his accounts of those opinions with which he happens to disagree. (Among other things, this book is a model of scholarly good manners.) The result, for this reviewer, was w really valuable clearing of the undergrowth, and a cutting of some vistas, at least, through a wildly tangled forest. (? ) Students who have already some acquaintance with the ?Prometheus? and its problems will perhaps be interested above all in Chapters 4 and 6. In Chapter 4 (?) Conacher provides an extremely useful comparative examination of the other ancient passages that relate to the development of ...
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1980Uitgever: University of Toronto Press250 paginasISBN-10: 0802023916ISBN-13: 9780802023919Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Toronto (...), 1980. XII,198p. Original cloth. Head and tail spine a bit worn. Library marks to edges as well as to last end pages. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: CONACHER, D.J.,] [Uitgever: University of Toronto Press] [Jaar: 1980] [Titel: Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound. A Literary Commentary.]
