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The tragic theatre was no mere diversion for a fifth-century Athenian: it was a focal part of the experience of being a citizen. Tragedy explores fundamental issues of religion, of ethics, of civic ideology, and we should expect it to be a central source for the reconstruction and analysis of the Athenian thought-world. Yet it is also a peculiarly delicate source to use, and the combination of tragic with other material often poses particular problems to the historian. This collection of eleven papers investigates the methods and pitfalls of using tragedy to illuminate fifth-century thought, culture, and society. In the concluding essay Christopher Pelling summarizes two important themes of the book: the problems of using tragedy as evidence; and the light tragedy can shed on civic ideology.
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- Author/s Pelling, Christopher
- ISBN13 9780198149873
- ISBN10 0198149875
- Pages 268
- Published 1996
Greek tragedy and the historian.
- Author Christopher Pelling
- Publisher OXFORD U.P.
- ISBN 9780198149873
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