Blundell, Mary Whitlock
Helping Friends and Harming Enemies

A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics.

Sophocles has traditionally been considered the least philosophical of the three great Greek tragedians, but Whitlock Blundell offers a new examination of the ethical content of the plays by focusing primarily on the traditional Greek popular moral code of 'helping friends and harming enemies'. Five of the extant plays are discussed in detail both from a dramatic and an ethical standpoint, and the author concludes that ethical themes are not only integral to each drama, but are subjected to an implicit critique through the tragical consequences to which they give rise. XII,298 Seiten, broschiert (Cambridge University Press 1991) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben und bestoßen. Ab Seite 157-298 an der unteren Buchkante minimal geknickt/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed and bumped, page corners from page 157-298 slightly creased