Iphigenias at Aulis

by Sean Alexander Gurd

How should a literary scholar approach a text characterized not by stability but by variation and flux? This book offers a radical new perspective on the limits--and the accomplishments--of the modern traditions of textual criticism in classics.Sean Alexander Gurd takes as his starting point the case of a single Greek tragedy by Euripides, one of his last. According to ancient accounts, the Iphigenia at Aulis was produced at the city Dionysia,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801443296
• ISBN13: 9780801443299
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher