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Motif of Io in Aeschylus' Suppliants
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Motif of Io in Aeschylus' Suppliants
Contributors:
By (Author) Robert Duff Murray
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
15th February 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary studies: plays and playwrights
Dewey:
882.01
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
118
Dimensions:
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
Weight:
113g
Description
Few Greek tragedies confront the critic with more varied difficulties than the Suppliants, and perhaps no other tragedy has been the subject of such diverse interpretation. In this book Professor Murray demonstrates that the web of imagery woven around Io, the ancestress of the Danaids, is a vitally important vehicle of meaning, indispensable to a
