BOOKS by Professor Thomas Marier

Greek Mythology: An Introduction more books like this

by Professor Fritz Graf, Professor Thomas Marier (Translator)

Allegorists in ancient Greece attempted to find philosophical and physical truths in myth. Plato, who resolutely excluded myths from the sphere of truth, thought that they could express ideas in a realm he could not reach with dialectical reasoning. Freud built a science around the myth of Oedipus, saying that myths were "distorted wish dreams of ...

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Greek Tragedy: An Introduction more books like this

by Professor Bernhard Zimmermann, Professor Thomas Marier (Translator)

In lively and thorough summaries of the major works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Zimmermann examines such topics as techniques of characterization, conditions and conventions of stage performances, musical and metrical aspects, and the religious and political content of the plays.

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