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... plays . ' ' It is perhaps the oddest play of Sophocles that we have . ' ' It is the hardest to understand . ' Tot homines , sed una sententia . Those who have nevertheless gone on to find something in the play have given it a completely ...
... plays . ' ' It is perhaps the oddest play of Sophocles that we have . ' ' It is the hardest to understand . ' Tot homines , sed una sententia . Those who have nevertheless gone on to find something in the play have given it a completely ...
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... play do not really come from character ; they come from the malice of a centaur and because certain dooms have been foreordained . ' At the end of the play , he says , we have passed psychology : the play has taken a larger sweep . Once ...
... play do not really come from character ; they come from the malice of a centaur and because certain dooms have been foreordained . ' At the end of the play , he says , we have passed psychology : the play has taken a larger sweep . Once ...
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... play ? Has he discovered the essential structure of the Trachiniae ? This tragedy is eminently a tragedy by virtue of its structure . What makes it one ( simplex et unum ) is in the first place the chain of events that brings about the ...
... play ? Has he discovered the essential structure of the Trachiniae ? This tragedy is eminently a tragedy by virtue of its structure . What makes it one ( simplex et unum ) is in the first place the chain of events that brings about the ...
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NATURE AND THE WORLD OF MAN | 9 |
GREEK LITERATURE | 32 |
TWO FROM ARCHILOCHUS | 54 |
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