Book contents
- Choral Tragedy
- Classical Scholarship in Translation
- Choral Tragedy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the English Edition
- Note on the Translations
- Methodological Prelude
- Chapter 1 The Essence of ‘The Tragic’
- Chapter 2 Tragedy, Cult and Ritual
- Chapter 3 Choral Polyphonies and Tragedy
- Chapter 4 Aeschylus’ Persians
- Chapter 5 Euripides’ Hippolytus
- Chapter 6 Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
- Chapter 7 Poets, Tragic Diction and Tragic Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
Chapter 7 - Poets, Tragic Diction and Tragic Fiction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2024
- Choral Tragedy
- Classical Scholarship in Translation
- Choral Tragedy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface to the English Edition
- Note on the Translations
- Methodological Prelude
- Chapter 1 The Essence of ‘The Tragic’
- Chapter 2 Tragedy, Cult and Ritual
- Chapter 3 Choral Polyphonies and Tragedy
- Chapter 4 Aeschylus’ Persians
- Chapter 5 Euripides’ Hippolytus
- Chapter 6 Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
- Chapter 7 Poets, Tragic Diction and Tragic Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Subject Index
Summary
Is tragedy choral? Let us return finally to the question of origins, but let us do so while keeping strictly to the poetical, narrative and ritual dimensions. We will now be able to draw some conclusions regarding the pragmatics of the tragic choral voice – both masculine and feminine – as it is orchestrated by the poets who stage, in the service of the city, an action belonging to its heroic past.
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- Choral TragedyGreek Poetics and Musical Ritual, pp. 160 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024