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She is neither the voice of duty and conscienc as in Aeschylus and Sophocles , nor the arrogant symbol of an obsolete heroic ethos as in Euripides ' Electre and Orestes . Giraudoux's heroine strenuously opposes all forms of entrenched ...
She is neither the voice of duty and conscienc as in Aeschylus and Sophocles , nor the arrogant symbol of an obsolete heroic ethos as in Euripides ' Electre and Orestes . Giraudoux's heroine strenuously opposes all forms of entrenched ...
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In their different ways , Aeschylus , Sophocles and Euripides had used the myth of the Atreidae to demonstrate the confrontation between justice and expediency , and Aeschylus in particular had carried his exploration of this theme to a ...
In their different ways , Aeschylus , Sophocles and Euripides had used the myth of the Atreidae to demonstrate the confrontation between justice and expediency , and Aeschylus in particular had carried his exploration of this theme to a ...
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This is philosophically unsatisfactory , as the comparison with Aeschylus reveals . But Giraudoux himself would surely question the need for philosophical consistency in the theatre . In his essay on Racine he whimsically envisions God ...
This is philosophically unsatisfactory , as the comparison with Aeschylus reveals . But Giraudoux himself would surely question the need for philosophical consistency in the theatre . In his essay on Racine he whimsically envisions God ...
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A Myth Dream and Night mare in | 1 |
Mindscripts | 21 |
The Exoneration of Oedipus | 37 |
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