Essays (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Bernard Knox
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Literary and historical essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: History, Literature, Writing, Novelists, War, Conquest, Drama or dramatists, Greek or Roman times, Civil wars, Spain or Spanish people
Few scholars lead lives of such diversity and adventure as the author of this book has enjoyed. Bernard Knox is recognized among general classicists for his interpretative studies of ancient Greek drama. Especially well known are The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy (1965), in which the characteristics of a Sophoclean hero are defined, and Oedipus at Thebes (1957), in which the main character of Sophocles’ dramatic masterpiece is shown to possess many traits identifiable with fifth century Athenians. Research- oriented classicists associate Knox with the...
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