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Ritual Irony

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Ritual Irony

By Helene P. Foley

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Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae.Examining Euripides' representation of sacrificial ritual against the background of late fifth-century Athens, Helene P. Foley shows that each of these plays confronts directly the difficulty of...

Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

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9781501740626

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Cornell University Press

Published year

2019

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Ritual Irony

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