Die Griechischen Tragödien Mit Rücksicht Auf Den Epischen Cyclus 3 Volume Set

Die Griechischen Tragödien Mit Rücksicht Auf Den Epischen Cyclus 3 Volume Set - Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

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Publisher's Synopsis

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868) championed a comprehensive approach to antiquity, embracing history, literature, art and religion. This, and his openness to contemporary philosophical ideas about aesthetics and mythology, gave his work a visionary quality that inspired later figures as diverse as Usener and Wilamowitz. In this three-volume work on tragedy, his largest, published between 1839 and 1841, he attempts to reconstruct all the lost trilogies and tetralogies of Greek tragic theatre, insisting on their artistic unity, and demonstrating their fundamental debt to the Epic Cycle (which he had investigated in his Der Epische Cyclus, also reissued in this series). Amid much that is fantastic he made many brilliant discoveries, such that he must still be consulted by all serious students of the subject.

Book information

ISBN: 9781108029926
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 1650
Weight: 2110g
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Spine width: 96mm