Cheiron's way : youthful education in Homer and tragedy / Justina Gregory.
2018
PA4037 .G696 2018
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Title
Cheiron's way : youthful education in Homer and tragedy / Justina Gregory.
Author
ISBN
9780190857912 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number
PA4037 .G696 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
883.01
Summary
This work studies the social and ethical formation of youthful characters in Greek epic and tragedy. It investigates Cheiron the centaur, ancient Greece's first teacher; traces the influential trajectory of the Iliadic Achilles; and offers readings of the Odyssey, Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes, and Euripides' Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis.
Note
This work studies the social and ethical formation of youthful characters in Greek epic and tragedy. It investigates Cheiron the centaur, ancient Greece's first teacher; traces the influential trajectory of the Iliadic Achilles; and offers readings of the Odyssey, Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes, and Euripides' Hippolytus and Iphigenia in Aulis.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Access limited to athorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 13, 2018).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9780190857882
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