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Alcestis: Character and Death

Thomas G. Rosenmeyer

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Frontmatter i
Foreword v
CONTENTS xiii
A Note on the Translations 1
Seven Against Thebes: The Tragedy of War 5
Prometheus Bound: Tragedy or Treatise? 49
Bacchae and Ion: Tragedy and Religion 103
Ajax: Tragedy and Time 153
Alcestis: Character and Death 199

https://doi.org/10.7560/732988-007

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Foreword v
CONTENTS xiii
A Note on the Translations 1
Seven Against Thebes: The Tragedy of War 5
Prometheus Bound: Tragedy or Treatise? 49
Bacchae and Ion: Tragedy and Religion 103
Ajax: Tragedy and Time 153
Alcestis: Character and Death 199

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