AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

Tragic Troy and Athens: heroic space in Attic drama

by P.T. van Uum




Institution: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Department:
Year: 2013
Record ID: 1250850
Full text PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.400792


Abstract

This book examines the physical presentation of the heroic world in tragedy, in short the ‘tragic world’. This presentation includes the landscape, buildings, and objects of this world, and aims to provide a clearer understanding of how the classical Greeks presented their ‘distant past’, the so-called epoch to which the heroic world belongs. The focus on the presentation of two cities in many tragedies rather than on the complete heroic world of a single tragedy makes it possible to discern general tendencies in the tragic genre as a whole.