Time Holds the Mirror: A Study of Knowledge in Euripides' Hippolytus (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 102) - Softcover

Luschnig, Cecelia Eaton

 
9789004086012: Time Holds the Mirror: A Study of Knowledge in Euripides' Hippolytus (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 102)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9004086013 ISBN 13: 9789004086012
Publisher: Brill, 1988

Synopsis

The work is limited to the question of knowledge in Euripides' Hippolytus and seeks to show that one of the major themes of the Hippolytus, as of the Oedipus, is knowledge.
In successive chapters these subjects are treated: (1) the witness theme, seeing and knowing, what the senses reveal; (2) fantasies of other worlds created by the characters and how these fantasies reavel the character's perceptions of the world; (3) how Euripides causes his characters to become aware of the shifting meanings of words and how it happens that one statement and its opposite can be predicated of the same individual or act; (4) the desire for and fear of knowledge and the choice of ignorance; (5) the use of generalization as a kind of ignorance; (6) the relation of the character's knowledge to that of the audience.
The work offers a new perception of the drama through a detailed examination of this important question that was so warmly debated among the early Sophists.

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Publisher
Brill
Publication date
1988
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004086013
ISBN 13 
9789004086012
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
132