Poetry into Drama
by C. John Herington
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- Author: C. John Herington
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Drama or dramatists, Greek or Roman times, Plays or playwrights
Poetry into Drama: Early Tragedy and the Greek Poetic Tradition is the forty-ninth volume of the Sather Lectures, a major series of classical studies based upon public lectures given by the Sather Professor of Classical Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. John Herington is a distinguished classical scholar whose most important previous book, The Author of Prometheus Bound (1970), supports the strongly disputed Aeschylean authorship of this play.
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