Generalization and characterization in Sophocles' Trachiniae and Antigone
This article examines the use of general statements by characters in Sophocles’ Trachiniae and Antigone. After a discussion of proverbs and gnomic statements more broadly as speech acts closely linked to the presentation of authority, I examine the particular reliance on generalization exhibited by...
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University of Chicago Press
2020
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