Tragic Workings in Euripides' Drama
des Bouvrie, SynnA?ve
Tragic Workings in Euripides Drama offers a substantially new theory and method for understanding Attic tragedy. Starting from anthropological insights, and drawing on Aristotles theory of the specific tragic reactions of shock and horror as well as his propositions on the tragic violation of fundamental social values, des Bouvrie argues that the participating community in fifth-century Greece, for instance at the Dionysia, the Athenian dramat...