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Frontmatter

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS ix
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
  4. ABBREVIATIONS xiv
  5. PREFACE xv
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1. Aeschylus’s Persians: The Messenger and Epic Narrative 23
  8. 2. The Literary Messenger, the Tragic Messenger 56
  9. 3. Euripides’ Bacchae: The Spectator in the Text 102
  10. 4. Homer and the Art of Fiction in Sophocles’ Electra 132
  11. 5. Rhesos and Poetic Tradition 168
  12. 6. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus: Epistemology and Tragic Practice 190
  13. Appendix: Messengers in Greek Tragedy 223
  14. WORKS CITED 225
  15. INDEX LOCORUM 239
  16. GENERAL INDEX 245
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. CONTENTS ix
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
  4. ABBREVIATIONS xiv
  5. PREFACE xv
  6. Introduction 1
  7. 1. Aeschylus’s Persians: The Messenger and Epic Narrative 23
  8. 2. The Literary Messenger, the Tragic Messenger 56
  9. 3. Euripides’ Bacchae: The Spectator in the Text 102
  10. 4. Homer and the Art of Fiction in Sophocles’ Electra 132
  11. 5. Rhesos and Poetic Tradition 168
  12. 6. Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus: Epistemology and Tragic Practice 190
  13. Appendix: Messengers in Greek Tragedy 223
  14. WORKS CITED 225
  15. INDEX LOCORUM 239
  16. GENERAL INDEX 245
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