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- Author: John Addington Symonds
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1511440945
- ISBN-13: 9781511440943
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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The chapters on Ãschylus and Sophocles have already introduced the reader to some of the principal questions regarding Attic tragedy in general. Yet the opening of a new volume justifies the resumption of this subject from the beginning, while the peculiar position of Euripides, in relation to his two great predecessors, suggests the systematic discussion of the religious ideas which underlay this supreme form of national art, as well as of the æsthetical rules which it obeyed in Greece. Critics who are contented with referring the origin of the Greek drama to the mimetic instinct inherent in all humanity are apt to neglect those circumstances which render it an almost unique phenomenon in literature. If the mimetic instinct were all that is requisite for the origination of a national drama, then we might expect to find that every race at a certain period of its development produced both tragedy and comedy.
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- Author: John Addington Symonds
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1511440945
- ISBN-13: 9781511440943
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
The chapters on Ãschylus and Sophocles have already introduced the reader to some of the principal questions regarding Attic tragedy in general. Yet the opening of a new volume justifies the resumption of this subject from the beginning, while the peculiar position of Euripides, in relation to his two great predecessors, suggests the systematic discussion of the religious ideas which underlay this supreme form of national art, as well as of the æsthetical rules which it obeyed in Greece. Critics who are contented with referring the origin of the Greek drama to the mimetic instinct inherent in all humanity are apt to neglect those circumstances which render it an almost unique phenomenon in literature. If the mimetic instinct were all that is requisite for the origination of a national drama, then we might expect to find that every race at a certain period of its development produced both tragedy and comedy.
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