Aias in Athens: the worlds of the play and the audience
Athenian tragic poets were careful to separate the ‘heroic’ world from the world of their ffth-century audience, and they did so by deploying the twin dynamic of ‘distance and diference’. This dynamic encoded cultural lessons and allowed the audience to sympathise with the dilemmas facing the charac...
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Fabrizio Serra editore
2016
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