Guilt by Descent

Guilt by Descent
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9780199227334
ISBN-13 : 0199227330
Rating : 4/5 (330 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Guilt by Descent by : N. J. Sewell-Rutter

Download or read book Guilt by Descent written by N. J. Sewell-Rutter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives the familiar issues of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation a fresh appraisal, with particular reference to Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes and the Phoenician Women of Euripides. All Greek quotations are translated.


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