"Edith Hall offers an introduction to Greek tragedy which argues that the essential feature of the genre is that it depicts terrible human suffering and death, but in a way that invites philosophical enquiry into their causes and effects. This enquiry was played out in the bright sunlight of open-air theatre, which became a key marker of the boundary between living and dead. The first half of the book is divided into four chapters which address the...

Contains three of Sophocles' most famous tragedies. Includes introduction, textual note, chronology, and explanatory notes.

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