360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

Why did Aeschylus characterize differently from Sophocles? Why did Sophocles introduce the third actor? Why did Euripides not make better plots? So asks H.D.F Kitto in his acclaimed study of Greek tragedy, available for the first time in Routledge Classics. Kitto argues that in spite of dealing with big moral and intellectual questions, the Greek dramatist is above all an artist and the key to... Read more

Foreword to The Routledge Classics Edition  Preface  Note to the Third Edition  1. Lyrical Tragedy  2. Old Tragedy  3. The Oresteia  4. The Dramatic Art of Aeschylus  5. Middle Tragedy: Sophocles  6. The Philosophy of Sophocles  7. The Dramatic Art of Sophocles  8. The Euripidean Tragedy  9. The Technique of the Euripidean Tragedy  10. The ‘Trachiniae’ and ‘Philoctetes’  11. The New Tragedy: ‘Euripides’ Tragi-Comedies 
12. New Tragedy: Euripides’ Melodramas  13. Two Last Plays  Index

Biography

H.D.F. Kitto (1897 – 1982) was a renowned British classical scholar. He lectured at the University of Glasgow from 1920-1944 before becoming Professor of Greek at Bristol University, where he taught until 1962.

'Two things give Kitto's classic book its enduring freshness: he pioneered the approach to Greek drama through internal artistry and thematic form, and he always wrote in lively and readable English.' - Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford, UK